“External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Iran on January 14 to 15 as part of the ongoing high-level exchanges between the two sides,” it stated on Saturday.

“He will meet Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and hold discussions on bilateral, regional and global issues,” the MEA stated in an announcement.

It stated political cooperation, connectivity initiatives and powerful people-to-people ties will represent necessary facets of the agenda of the talks between Jaishankar and Amir-Abdollahian.

Jaishankar’s deliberate go to to Tehran comes towards the backdrop of rising world issues over Houthi militants focusing on service provider vessels within the Red Sea amid the Israel-Hamas battle.

The US and the UK have already launched air strikes focusing on the Houthi positions in Yemen.

India has been carefully monitoring the unfolding state of affairs within the Red Sea. The challenge figured in a cellphone dialog between Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday.

The Indian Navy has already enhanced deployment of its frontline ships and surveillance plane for maritime safety operations in view of the maritime atmosphere within the important sea lanes together with the North and Central Arabian Sea.

Following the airstrikes focusing on the Houthi positions, US President Joe Biden stated he won’t hesitate to direct additional measures.

“The response of the international community to these reckless attacks has been united and resolute,” he stated.

Jaishankar and Amir-Abdollahian are additionally prone to deliberate on boosting regional connectivity by way of the Chabahar port.

Located in Sistan-Balochistan province on the energy-rich Iran’s southern coast, the Chabahar port is being developed by India and Iran to spice up connectivity and commerce ties.

India has been pushing for the Chabahar port challenge to spice up regional commerce, particularly for its connectivity to Afghanistan.

At a connectivity convention in Tashkent in 2021, Jaishankar projected the Chabahar port as a key regional transit hub, together with to Afghanistan.

The Chabahar port can also be seen as a key hub for the INSTC challenge.

The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a 7,200-km-long multi-mode transport challenge for transferring freight amongst India, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia and Europe.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra visited Tehran in November to co-chair a gathering of India-Iran Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) together with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for political affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani.