India evacuates recent batch of 290 Indians, 1 Sri Lankan from Iran

Jun 23, 2025 11:30 PM IST

India evacuates recent batch of 290 Indians, 1 Sri Lankan from Iran

New Delhi, India on Monday evacuated 290 Indian nationals and one Sri Lankan citizen from Iran amid an escalation in hostilities between the Persian Gulf nation and Israel following the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear websites.

India evacuates recent batch of 290 Indians, 1 Sri Lankan from Iran

With the recent batch of evacuees, India has introduced again 2003 Indians from Iran to this point.

Two-hundred-ninety Indian nationals and one Sri Lankan had been evacuated from Mashhad on a particular flight that arrived in New Delhi at 1915 hours on Monday, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated in a social media submit.

With this, 2003 Indian nationals have been introduced again safely from Iran to this point, he added.

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A complete of 161 Indians are additionally arriving by a particular flight in New Delhi from Amman after they had been moved to the capital metropolis of Jordan from Israel as a part of New Delhi’s evacuation mission Operation Sindhu.

The Indian nationals are anticipated to succeed in the nationwide capital at round midnight tonight, folks accustomed to the matter stated.

India launched Operation Sindhu final week to convey again Indians from Iran and Israel in view of accelerating hostilities between the 2 nations.

Israel and Iran have fired lots of of missiles and drones at one another’s cities and army and strategic services for the reason that hostilities started over every week again.

The tensions escalated considerably following the US bombing of three main Iranian nuclear websites on Sunday morning.

India has evacuated its nationals on chartered flights operated from the Iranian metropolis of Mashhad, the Armenian capital of Yerevan and the Turkmenistan capital of Ashgabat since Wednesday.

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Iran lifted airspace restrictions on Friday to facilitate three chartered flights from Mashhad.

The first flight landed in New Delhi late on Friday with 290 Indians, and the second landed within the nationwide capital on Saturday afternoon with 310 Indians.

Another flight arrived from the Armenian capital metropolis of Yerevan on Thursday. A particular evacuation flight from Ashgabat landed in New Delhi early on Saturday morning.

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