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To gain better access to Central Asia — and to Afghanistan as well — India has pledged to provide financial support to develop the port in Chabahar, Iran. India envisions this port, located on Iran’s southern coast, as a gateway to a region that it cannot access via Pakistan to the east. Just as Beijing wants to use Pakistan (and the port it is building in Gwadar) as a land route linking the Middle East to China, New Delhi wants to use Iran (and Chabahar, only 40 miles from Gwadar) as a land route to Afghanistan and the Caucuses.