India, June 17 -- Indian students have been moved out of Tehran and some Indian nationals have been helped to leave Iran via the land border with Armenia, the external affairs ministry said on Tuesday against the backdrop of continuing military clashes between Iran and Israel.

Since the weekend, Indian authorities had begun relocating Indian students in Iran to safer places in the face of Israeli air attacks and bombings. Iran is home to more than 4,000 Indian nationals, about half of them students. Many of the students are from Jammu and Kashmir and are enrolled in medical and other professional courses.

The external affairs ministry said in a statement that Indian students in Tehran had been "moved out of the city for reasons of safet...