Iran’s ‘anti-American’ rhetoric tests India’s balancing act at Brics meeting

South China Morning Post · May 14, 2026 · 263 words · By Biman Mukherji

Geopolitical Diplomacy Brics Relations US-Iran conflict

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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Brics foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on Thursday”

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Multiple web search results confirm a BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi starting on a Thursday, specifically mentioning dates like May 14-15.

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web search NEUTRAL — The BRICS is a group formed by eleven countries: Brasil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Iran. It serves as a political and dipl…
https://brics.br/en/about-the-brics

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web search NEUTRAL — May 3, 2026 · BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, aimed at greater economic and geopolitical integration among member states. It origi…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/BRICS

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web search NEUTRAL — BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries: Brazil, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. [1] Its conceptual orig…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

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“India, which holds the Brics chair this year”

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Wikipedia and official news sources confirm that India holds the BRICS chairmanship for 2026, with the transition occurring on January 1, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — The 18th BRICS Summit is an upcoming international summit of the BRICS nations, scheduled to be hosted by India in 2026 as part of its BRICS chairmanship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_BRICS_summit

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web search NEUTRAL — From 1 January 2026, the BRICS chairmanship officially passes from Brazil to India. For the first time, India, one of the founding members of the group, will lead the expanded format, which now..."Und…
https://tvbrics.com/en/news/india-officially-becomes-brics-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — India’s Rotating BRICS Presidency. Leaders’ meetings (or leaders’ summits) are held once a year on a rotating basis.Future of BRICS+ in Geopolitical World. Last year, several countries began working w…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/india-succeeds-brazil-brics-ch…

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“expanded bloc that now includes Iran and the United Arab Emirates”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that Iran and the United Arab Emirates became official members of BRICS in 2024.

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web search NEUTRAL — The organization expanded again in 2024, with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates attending the 16th BRICS summit as official members. In January 2025, Indonesia joined the organizatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_BRICS

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web search NEUTRAL — However, BRICS has struggled with internal divisions on a range of issues, including relations with the United States and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, its growing membership is both expand…
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-brics-group-and-why-i…

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web search NEUTRAL — Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were invited to become members with effect from 1 January 2024. A Saudi Arabian government minister said in mid January it had no…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66525474

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“conflict launched by the United States and Israel on February 28”

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Only the France24 cross-reference mentions this specific conflict launched on February 28. The web search results are irrelevant (returning airline information), providing no corroboration or contradiction.

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“Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is also attending the two-day meeting”

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Two independent web search results confirm Sergey Lavrov's attendance at the two-day BRICS meeting in New Delhi.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Russian foreign minister regretted that he was not able to attend the full presentation by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.Meeting of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) foreig…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov

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web search NEUTRAL — Jaishankar met Lavrov, shortly after the Russian foreign minister landed in New Delhi to attend a two-day conclave of the BRICS member states beginning Thursday.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/s-jaishankar-russias-sergey-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers in New Delhi on May 14-15, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
https://sputniknews.in/20260429/lavrov-set-to-join-brics-for…

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“Brics... could not agree on a common position on the war at a meeting of its officials last month in Delhi”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general BRICS descriptions and member lists; none of the sources mention a failure to agree on a common position regarding a war in a meeting last month in Delhi.

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“Uday Chandra, a political-science professor at Ashoka University in India’s Haryana state”

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The web search results only return information about Uday Hussein (son of Saddam Hussein), not a professor named Uday Chandra. There is no evidence in the provided search results to confirm or deny the existence of the professor at Ashoka University.

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web search NEUTRAL — Uday was a flamboyant womanizer who financed his lavish lifestyle largely through smuggling and racketeering. His erratic and violent behaviour was widely known, and he allegedly reveled in wanton mur…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uday-Hussein

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web search NEUTRAL — Uday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (Arabic: عُدي صدّام حُسين) (June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was the oldest son of Saddam Hussein, the fifth President of Iraq. He had one younger brother named Qusay Hussein. …
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uday_Hussein

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web search NEUTRAL — Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Qusay_and_Uday_Huss…

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