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Actually, India’s foreign policy towards Arab countries has always been based on the principle of peaceful coexistence. Therefore, in this regard Indo-Iran relations have always been friendly and cordial since India’s freedom. However our main objective of the study is to focus on the key areas of cooperation in post-cold war period, therefore, the current substantive thrust in India’s relations with Iran is largely as old as the demise of the Cold War. With the fall of Communism and its eventual removal, the Cold War vision of a bipolar contest between the first and the second world became redundant. The related notion of a non-aligned Third World was also emptied of all meaning. The states, unshackled from the rigidity of ideological divisions, moved on to maximise their gains by forming varied and amorphous coalitions. In the context, India’s foreign policy witnessed an inevitable reorientation: ideology-based engagements gave way to interest based relations. That is why in West Asia, India has become more clear-eyed and aggressive in pursuing the objectives of its foreign policy. The present research paper makes a review of key areas of cooperation in Indo-Iran relations in post-cold war period.