Gulf War 3.0: Iran Conflict Spreads to South Asia

In this episode of Beyond the Indus, host Tushar Shetty sits down with Siddhant Kishore, a national security and foreign policy analyst based in Washington, D.C. and former open-source intelligence analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, to examine the impact of the Iran conflict on South Asia. Drawing on his expertise in Middle Eastern security and Iran's axis of resistance, Kishore offers a wide-ranging assessment that covers India's strategic pivot away from Tehran, the shifting objectives of the Israeli-U.S. military campaign, the credibility of Iran's nuclear threshold as a casus belli, the controversial sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean, and the spillover risks facing Afghanistan and Pakistan – from refugee crises and foreign fighter flows to the exploitation of sectarian unrest by groups like the Baloch Liberation Army and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).