"Prime Minister Netanyahu presented to Prime Minister Modi the reasons why we have decided to go to this operation. We are happy that Prime Minister Modi got the call and that he listened carefully to our presentation and our motivation,

India's equity benchmark indexes trimmed some gains on Tuesday as Israel said it had ordered its military to strike Tehran after it violated a ceasefire announced earlier by U.S. President Donald Trump.

However, finding the right balance in matters of statecraft is a tough task, particularly when one side has been perceived to be favored over the other in the past, but those warm relations are no longer the same. India’s stance on the Israel-Iran conflict contains many such contradictions.