The confirmation coincided with a comment by Iran's Ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, today that Tehran will provide safe passage to vessels bound for India through the Strait of Hormuz, citing longstanding friendship and shared interests between the two countries.
"Yes. Because India and Iran are friends. You can see in the future and I think that after two or three hours. Because we believe that. We believe that Iran and India are friends. We have common interests; we have a common fate," Fathali said to a question on the tanker movement.
"Suffering of the people of India is our suffering and vice versa. And for this reason, the government of India helps us, and we should help the government of India because we have a common fate and common interest," he said.
source is NDTV
what was the need to say this , Especially after iran allowed the ships to go through only after india released cpatured tankers