Archive · 11 Sep 2026
Pezeshkian to Meet Modi Amid BRICS and West Asia Tensions
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is visiting India.
He is scheduled to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on September 11, 2026.
The meeting is connected to the BRICS Leaders’ Summit.
It is Pezeshkian’s first visit to India as president.
He is also the first Iranian president to visit India in more than eight years.
Modi and Pezeshkian met 10 days earlier in Kyrgyzstan.
Their talks come while Iran, Israel and the United States remain involved in a serious regional conflict.
India is also trying to help BRICS members agree on the wording of a joint statement.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on September 11, 2026.
The meeting will take place during Pezeshkian’s first visit to India since becoming president.
Pezeshkian is the first Iranian president to visit India since Hassan Rouhani traveled there in February 2018.
The leaders met 10 days earlier in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
India is seeking agreement on a BRICS declaration while Iran and the UAE remain divided over language on the West Asia conflict.
- Who
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- What
- Pezeshkian is visiting India for the BRICS Leaders’ Summit and is scheduled to meet Modi.
- When
- September 11, 2026; the meeting is scheduled for the evening.
- Where
- New Delhi, India; the leaders previously met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
- Why
- The visit is connected to the BRICS summit and takes place amid the West Asia conflict and negotiations over a joint BRICS declaration.
- Visitor
- Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran
- Host
- Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
- Meeting
- Scheduled for the evening of September 11, 2026
- Summit
- The 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi
- Previous meeting
- August 31 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit
- Previous Iranian presidential visit
- Hassan Rouhani visited India in February 2018
- Diplomatic issue
- Iran and the United Arab Emirates have not reached a common position on language for the BRICS Delhi Declaration
