{"id":32771,"date":"2020-09-07T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32771"},"modified":"2020-09-07T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:49:35","slug":"tehran-raises-concern-over-the-safety-of-minorities-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32771","title":{"rendered":"Tehran raises concern over the safety of minorities in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>India, Iran exchange views on Afghanistan<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met with Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami in Tehran, Iran.\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/national\/j8o4tl\/article32534703.ece\/alternates\/FREE_435\/iranmin\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met with Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami in Tehran, Iran. | Photo Credit: Twitter\/RajnathSingh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Ministers of India and Iran discussed ways to take forward bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional security issues, including peace and stability in Afghanistan during their meeting in Tehran, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. In a departure from protocol for defence meetings, the Iranian side also raised the issue of recent reports citing the safety of minorities in India, it has been learnt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a bilateral meeting with Iran\u2019s Minister of Defence and armed forces logistics Brigadier General Amir Hatami at the latter\u2019s request on September 5. Mr. Singh was on a transit halt in Tehran en route from Moscow to New Delhi where he attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers meeting. Iran is an Observer at the SCO. \u201cBoth the leaders emphasised upon the age-old cultural, linguistic and civilisational ties between India and Iran,\u201d the Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran is a 95% majority Muslim country, and Iranian officials raised the issue of safety of minorities as Mr. Singh represents Lucknow, which has a sizeable Muslim population as well, said sources privy to the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the sources, Mr. Singh reassured the Iranian Defence Minister that all minorities in India were secure. He also pointed out that India was one of the rare countries in the world where all sects of Islam were present, and that all sects and religions lived together in the country\u2019s pluralistic culture, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, Iran exchange views on Afghanistan Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met with Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami in Tehran, Iran. | Photo Credit: Twitter\/RajnathSingh Defence Ministers of India and Iran discussed ways to take forward bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional security issues, including peace and stability in Afghanistan during their meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}