Pepe Escobar alleged over the past week that Bharat sequentially betrayed them both.
The Iranian Ambassador to Bharat responded to a question from RT Bharat on Friday about conflicting reports that Iran had granted India permission to use the Strait of Hormuz by declaring that “Yes, because India is our friend. You will see it within two or three hours.” His confirmation came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian since the Third Gulf War began while his top diplomat Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held his fourth one with his counterpart.
This news might come as a surprise for many members of Russia’s “global media ecosystem” after one of its top influencers, Pepe Escobar, published an article about how Bharat supposedly “betrayed” both Russia and Iran. He also spoke about it on a podcast with Judge Andrew Napolitano and earlier posted about it on X after falling for a now-debunked viral Pakistani AI-assisted fake video of the Bharatiya Army Chief allegedly admitting to giving Israel the coordinates of the Iranian ship that the US later sunk.
Pepe is friends with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, his spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Duma Deputy Chairman Alexander Babakov, Commissioner for Integration and Macroeconomics within the Eurasian Economic Commission Sergey Glazyev, and is a privileged affiliate of Russia’s top think tank, the Valdai Club, et al. He’s therefore perceived as “the voice of Russian insiders”, “Russia’s...
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