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As convulsive protests proceed to dispersed crossed Iran, the All India Medical Students Association (AIMSA) overseas pupil helping connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) appealed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to intervene, saying astir 3,000 Indian aesculapian students are presently staying successful the Middle Eastern state arsenic unrest escalates crossed aggregate cities.
In a missive addressed to Mr. Jaishankar, Mohammad Momin Khan, Vice President of the Jammu and Kashmir portion of the All India Medical Students Association, expressed interest implicit the information of Indian students amid a rapidly deteriorating information situation.
"On behalf of the All India Medical Students Association (AIMSA), I privation to gully your benignant and urgent attraction to the prevailing concern successful the Islamic Republic of Iran and the increasing interest regarding the information and well-being of astir 3,000 Indian aesculapian students presently pursuing aesculapian acquisition there," the missive said.
The missive noted that students and their families are facing terrible anxiousness owed to the unstable concern connected the ground.
"In presumption of the evolving determination circumstances and prevailing uncertainty, Indian aesculapian students and their families crossed the state are experiencing sizeable anxiety. These students are enrolled successful assorted aesculapian universities crossed Iran and mostly beryllium connected section infrastructure, hostels and world institutions, making them peculiarly susceptible during periods of instability," it added.
AIMSA urged the Ministry of External Affairs to instrumentality precautionary steps, including mounting up exigency helplines and preparing evacuation plans if required.
"AIMSA humbly requests the Government of India, done the Ministry of External Affairs, to intimately show the concern and instrumentality proactive and precautionary measures to guarantee the safety, security, and uninterrupted connection of Indian aesculapian students successful Iran. Strengthening coordination with the Indian Embassy, establishing dedicated exigency helplines, issuing timely advisories, and preparing contingency oregon evacuation plans, if required, would supply much-needed reassurance to students and their families," the missive stated.
The entreaty comes arsenic Iran witnesses wide protests implicit rising prices and economical hardship, with clashes reported betwixt protestors and information forces.
Earlier connected Friday, the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) had besides written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his urgent and contiguous involution to guarantee the safety, security, dignity, and payment of Indian students, peculiarly from the Kashmir Valley, presently studying successful Iran.
The concern successful Iran was marked by wide unrest, wide protests, convulsive crackdowns, and reported killings crossed respective regions of the country. In the missive addressed to the Prime Minister, JKSA expressed heavy anxiousness and sedate interest implicit the plight of hundreds and thousands of Indian students, a bulk of them from Jammu and Kashmir, who are pursuing MBBS and different nonrecreational aesculapian courses successful Iran owed to its economically viable acquisition strategy and long-standing world ties with India.
Trump connected Iran protest
Meanwhile, amid the unrest, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a crisp informing to Tehran earlier this week, threatening imaginable involution if Iranian authorities people peaceful protesters. "If Iran shots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America volition travel to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and acceptable to go. Thank you for your attraction to this matter!" Mr. Trump wrote successful a station connected Tuesday (local time).
Following Trump's remarks, Iran's erstwhile Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi publically thanked the U.S. President for backing the protesters, saying Iranians are risking their lives to extremity decades of repression. In a station connected X, Mr. Pahlavi wrote, "President Trump, convey you for your beardown enactment and enactment of my compatriots. This informing you person issued to the transgression leaders of the Islamic Republic gives my radical greater spot and hope--hope that, astatine last, a President of the United States is lasting firmly by their side. As they hazard their lives to extremity this regime's 46-year reign of chaos and terror, they nonstop maine with a work and a message: to question the narration Iran erstwhile had with America that brought bid and prosperity to the Middle East."
Former Iranian Queen Farah Pahlavi besides voiced enactment for the protests, calling connected information forces to broadside with the people.
"We are a radical with a arrogant past of culture, art, intellect and innovation. Iran was erstwhile a beacon of anticipation and advancement and it volition beryllium again. The aboriginal belongs to those who situation to dream, who situation to combat for a amended tomorrow... I telephone connected the information forces to articulation the radical successful this movement," she posted connected X.
Iran has, however, powerfully pushed backmost against Trump's remarks. Its imperishable typical to the United Nations, Amir Saeed Iravani, wrote to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the President of the UN Security Council, demanding condemnation of what helium called "unlawful threats" by the U.S. President.
"Any effort to incite, promote oregon legitimise interior unrest arsenic a pretext for outer unit oregon subject involution is simply a gross usurpation of the sovereignty, governmental independency and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mr. Iravani wrote successful the letter, published by state-run IRNA.
He warned that Iran would respond firmly and held Washington liable for immoderate escalation."The United States of America bears afloat work for immoderate consequences arising from these amerciable threats and immoderate consequent escalation of tensions," helium said. According to IRNA, protests continued connected Friday successful cities including Qom, Marvdasht, Yasuj, Mashhad and Hamedan, with demonstrations besides reported successful respective parts of Tehran. The unrest intensified aft shopkeepers successful Tehran went connected onslaught implicit soaring prices and prolonged economical stagnation.
