Sonia Gandhi slams govt for ‘silence’ on Khamenei killing, calls it abdication

As the West Asia war entered its fourth day, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi questioned the Indian government’s response to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei in a US-Israel strike, in an editorial published in The Indian Express.

In her article titled “Government’s silence on killing of Iran leader is not neutral, it is abdication," Sonia Gandhi wrote that Iran confirmed on March 1 that its Supreme Leader had been assassinated in a targeted strike carried out the previous day by the United States and Israel.

She said the killing of a sitting head of state during ongoing negotiations marked a grave rupture in international relations, adding that New Delhi’s silence stood out as strongly as the event itself.