The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) dismissed claims that the United States was using Indian ports to launch strikes against Iran, calling the allegation “fake and false.”
The response came after former US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor made the claim during an interview with the US-based channel One America News Network
(OAN).
In the interview, Macgregor suggested that the US was relying on Indian naval bases after suffering damage to its own facilities.
“All of our bases have been destroyed. Our harbour installations are destroyed. We are actually having to fall back on India and Indian ports, which is less than ideal; that is what the navy says,” he said.