New Delhi: After a right-wing Indian commentator called Iranian foreign minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi a “pig” in a viral video about the hostilities between India and Pakistan, India’s embassy in Tehran clarified that his statements are unrelated to New Delhi’s official position and the tone in which they were made “inappropriate” in nature.Major (retired) Gaurav Arya, who is known for his extreme positions and frequently appears as a guest on major TV channels in India and is also followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X, had in a video on Thursday taken objection to Araghchi travelling to Islamabad before going to New Delhi the previous day.“This man, this child of a pig, this pig should have come to India when Pahalgam happened” and stood in solidarity with the country, Arya said, drawing a circle around a photo of Araghchi and writing ‘pig’ above it.Two days later, Iran’s embassy in New Delhi posted a screenshot of Arya’s video on X and said: “Respect for guests has a long-standing tradition in Iranian culture. We Iranians consider our guests to be “beloved by God.” How about you?”A few hours later, India’s embassy in Iran posted a message in Persian on X saying that Arya “is a private Indian citizen” whose statements “have nothing to do with India’s official position”.New Delhi “finds the disrespectful tone used in the video inappropriate”, it added.سفارت هند در ایران مایل است روشن سازد که فرد حاضر در این ویدئو یک شهروند خصوصی هندی است. اظهارات وی هیچ ارتباطی با موضع رسمی هند نداشته و دولت هند لحن بی احترامی استفاده شده در این ویدیو را ناشایست میداند.https://t.co/r8g1JiKpdV— India in Iran (@India_in_Iran) May 10, 2025However, Arya doubled down the next day, i.e. Sunday, by accusing Iran of ‘coming to India and plotting against India’.Writing that Iran “supplies weapons to Pakistan” that are used to “kill innocent Indians”, Arya further wrote that Iran ‘sides with Pakistan’ “only because of religion”.He went on to call the “mullah leadership of Iran” a “blot on humanity”. Mullah is a word often used by the Hindu right-wing in India to derogatorily refer to Muslims.Araghchi had visited New Delhi on Thursday to hold talks with Indian external affairs minister S. Jaishankar as part of the annual Indo-Iranian joint commission meeting.The two ministers, Tehran said, emphasised the “imperative of collaborative efforts to reduce tensions, safeguard peace and stability and prevent the expansion of conflicts and hostilities” against the backdrop of “the latest political and security developments in South Asia and West Asia”.He also met President Droupadi Murmu, where he said Iran “immediately denounced the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam” and offered Iranian support in de-escalating India-Pakistan tensions, which had spiked after India conducted missile strikes against ‘terrorist infrastructure’ in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’ on May 7.Following steady military escalation over a four-day period, India and Pakistan agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire on Saturday.A centrepiece of India’s relations with Iran is the latter’s Chabahar port, to equip and operate which India signed a ten-year lease last year.The state-run India Global Ports Limited is to invest around $120 million in equipping the port, which would provide it with not only a foothold in the region but also a crucial trade route to Afghanistan and Central Asia that bypasses Pakistan.Even though Arya suggested Iran and Pakistan share close relations, they have shared an uneasy relationship in recent years, with the two sides launching missile strikes on each other’s territory in January last year.Tehran had conducted missile strikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan to target strongholds of the Jaish al-Adl terror group, which is also known as Jundullah.Over the years, Iranian officials have often threatened to conduct military raids into Pakistan after any major action by Jaish al-Adl. In 2014, Pakistan had to make it publicly clear that Iranian security forces were not allowed to conduct operations inside its territory.Iranian security forces had previously intruded beyond the border too.