The Iran War Is Exposing BRICS’s Fault Lines

The Iran war became the first geopolitical stress test of an expanded BRICS, and the results were revealing. Unable to reconcile sharply divergent positions among its own members, the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi failed to produce a joint communiqué. Tensions between new entrants Iran and United Arab Emirates reportedly derailed consensus after Tehran accused the UAE of facilitating US-Israeli military operations, while the UAE accused Iran of violating its sovereignty.