The West Asia War & India's Stakes

The 2025-26 confrontation pitting Israel and the United States against Iran has twice pulled India into crisis-management mode. A twelve-day exchange in June 2025 forced New Delhi to airlift thousands of citizens home; a far larger US-led campaign in early 2026 choked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the artery for much of the oil, gas and cooking fuel India buys abroad. For a nation that imports most of its energy, hosts roughly ten million workers in the Gulf and leans on the money they send back, a West Asian war never stays a distant story - it lands on the fuel pump, the rupee and the trade balance.