New Delhi : The US and Israel’s war against Iran has entered its third week, and an end is still nowhere in sight. However, even as hostilities drag on, India is increasingly being described as one of the best-placed countries to mediate in the conflict. At least two voices in geopolitical and diplomatic circles have suggested that India, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are well-suited to broker peace. Now a third voice has joined the chorus.
However, even as hostilities drag on, India is increasingly being described as one of the best-placed countries to mediate in the conflict. The President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, in an interview with Bloomberg, called for India to help broker a US-Iran ceasefire, stating, we need a ceasefire.
As of filing this story, there has been no diplomatic signal from India indicating any move to mediate in the US-Israel-Iran war. The only country that has openly offered to do so is China. However, Beijing is widely seen as less neutral due to its extensive purchases of Iranian oil and its support for Tehran’s missile and drone arsenal through the supply of dual-use components and missile fuel.
Several factors place India in a uniquely favourable position to potentially mediate in the Iran war. These include its rising economic power, warm relations with Washington, Jerusalem and Tehran, its lack of expansionist ambitions or military adventurism, and, most importantly, its legacy as a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which continues to guide its vision of strategic autonomy.
To stop the US-Israel-Iran war, we need an intermediary, and preferably, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. He argued that PM Modi has good relations with Iran and Israel. India is not involved in this war in any way. India is a neutral state and the only neutral state that is growing in stature, power, and influence. Former UAE envoy to India, Hussain Hassan Mirza, stated that “India is a great country.
This makes India, according to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook report of 2026, one of the world’s fastest growing large economies. But what makes its rapid post-Covid economic turnaround even more spectacular is that it took place at a time when the economic trajectories of other large economies, like the US, China, and the European Union, lagged, or even contracted in certain metrics like GDP growth, inflation, employment, among others.
As the UK-based news outlet, The Economist, noted, “South Asia’s largest economy is surprisingly stable. This year the country has been both a victim of President Donald Trump’s trade war, singled out for especially punitive tariffs owing to its purchases of Russian oil, and a participant in a shooting war with nuclear-armed Pakistan. Its economy has barely noticed”.
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