India- Iran Relationship

India-Iran Relationship

 

Great Poet Rabindranath Tagore visiting Iran.

              


Relations between India and Iran dates back from a pretty old period. The harmonic relations between the two countries have a very long history and there has been a constant migration in between the people of two countries. As the result both the countries are having almost same traditions and cultures. India-Iran trade relations are very famous in the history of Iran and India. From the beginning there has been a very strong trade relationship between the two countries. India from the ancient period has been sending various gems, gold, silver and many other things and Iran has been exporting crude oil to India. Both the countries have been sharing many same things. Like similar culture, art forms, a good trade relationship and support of each other. Many iranian sculptures, paintings have been unearthed and in ancient civilization of Mesopotamia many Indian sculptures and things have been found which dates back to the Harrapan Culture Civilization. Sculptures written in Elamo-Dravidian languages have been found in both the countries. Elamo is the language of Western Iran and Dravidian language is an old language of India. Even India's oldest language i.e. Sanskrit is very similar to Avestan, the ancient language of the Persia Zoroastrian sacred text Avesta.
 The great Indian dynasty Mauryan Dynasty and famous Iranian dynasty Achaemenid were there in the same period. Both of them shared very good friendship. Iran at that time was under Alexander the great's rule and Selecus Nicator was ruling the conquered Asia. When Seleucus Nikator was defeated in battle against Chandragupta Maurya, Seleucus sent his ambassador Meghatenese and also gifted his daughter to Chandragupta Maurya, establishing a very strong and robust relationship between the two countries.
After 100-200 years later Gupta Dynasty came to rule in India and Sassanid dynasty came to power in Persia (Modern Day Iran). Both these dynasties shared great relations with each other. Both the countries traded many objects with each others. Iranian traders also worked with Indians to trade things to Europe. Game of Chess was propagated in Iran by Indians and many other books like Charak Samhita, and books written by Aryabhatta have also been translated into Persian while Iran's art forms and culture were also employed in India. 
These facts obviously exhibit that both the countries are having a great relationship from the commencement. They are best friends of each other and need each other a lot.
But nowadays the relationship between the two countries is deteriorating. Due to misunderstanding the relationship between the countries is receding. Iran is the second large crude oil supplier to India and India is also of great help to Iran. So both the countries should mend their pre-historic relations as both are of great help to each other. 

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