As Pakistan emerged as a significant and credible interlocutor in the U.S.-Iran conflict, many of India’s strategists and analysts openly lamented their country's irrelevance to the major geopolitical developments unfolding in the Middle East. In contemporary geopolitical discourse, India’s foreign policy has drawn criticism, including for its untimely alignment with Israel and revelation of fatherland-motherland relationship between Israel and India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Tel Aviv two days before the coordinated attack by nuclear-armed U.S. and Israel on non-nuclear-armed Iran on 28 February 2026.