BRICS Leaders Condemn Unilateral Sanctions, Call for Restraint in Middle East

In New Delhi, the leaders of five major economies spanning billions of people issued a collective rebuke of unilateral economic coercion, calling for restraint in a Middle East already strained by conflict. Iran's presence at the table — alongside the UAE — gave the statement a geopolitical weight that Western diplomatic channels, which have long excluded Tehran, cannot easily replicate. The summit did not merely produce words; it signaled that the architecture of global order is being contested from within, by nations that represent a significant share of humanity's future.