DID Press: Mohammadreza Bahrami, Director-General for South Asia at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, highlighted that relations between West Asia and South Asia have moved beyond mere geographic proximity and now exhibit a deeper level of “systemic interdependence.”
On his X account, Bahrami explained that this interconnection spans several key areas: in energy, creating mutual dependency; in security, where crises quickly spill over into neighboring regions; and in geoeconomics, linking regional economies through integrated supply chains.
He also emphasized that in geopolitics, shared competition among major powers has further bound the two regions together.
According to Bahrami, the consequence of this trend is that any strategic development in one region rapidly reverberates in the other, influencing broader regional calculations.