India allowed an Iranian warship to dock as a ‘humanitarian gesture’, Minister of External Affairs ​S. Jaishankar said on Saturday (March 7, 2026), after the U.S. sank another ‌Iranian Navy vessel off neighbouring Sri Lanka.

in his first remarks on the U.S. sinking another Iranian Navy vessel in the Indian Ocean, Mr. Jaishankar said that India allowed it to dock in Kochi as it approached it “from a point of humanity”.