India / Government denied Iranian minister raised the controversial comments on Prophet Muhammad

New Delhi : The Indian government on Thursday clarified that the issue of the Prophet's remarks did not arise in the talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister. In fact, earlier Iran's Foreign Ministry had claimed that in conversation with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, the issue related to the controversy arising over the remarks about the Prophet had been raised. However, now the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has given a statement on this. "I think this issue was not taken up," he said. Amid widespread outrage in Arab countries over controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammed, India on Thursday categorically said such remarks do not reflect the government's stand.

Action was taken against those who made tweets and comments - Government

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a weekly press briefing on Thursday, "We have made it absolutely clear that such tweets, comments do not reflect the stand of the government." It has been told about the same, as well as the fact that action has been taken against those who made such tweets and comments. Apart from this, I have nothing more to say about this."

The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson was asked about reports of the issue of controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad being raised during the meeting of visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahiyan with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to India. In fact, it was claimed in Iran's statement itself that those who made such comments were assured of strict action by Ajit Doval.

Iran also took back the statement

To this Bagchi said that his understanding is that the statement you are referring to has been withdrawn. A statement claiming this has been removed from the website of Iran's foreign ministry. An earlier Iranian statement claimed that its foreign minister, Hussein, was told by national security adviser Ajit Doval that those who made controversial remarks against the prophet would be "taught a lesson". This controversial statement is no longer mentioned on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Iran has removed it from its site.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, who is on a visit to India, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday. Iran's foreign minister's visit to India comes at a time when countries in West Asia are expressing outrage over controversial remarks made by two former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionaries on Prophet Mohammad.