Foreign minister S Jaishankar will stop over in Tehran on Tuesday en route to Moscow to attend the SCO foreign ministers' meeting. He would be the second Cabinet minister after defence minister Rajnath Singh who also stopped over on his return trip from Moscow. While officials said the stop was a "technical halt" mainly for refuelling, Jaishankar will meet his counterpart Javad Zarif, incidentally the first meeting since the pandemic hit. The Moscow meeting will also be the first time the foreign minister will be stepping out of the country since the pandemic. On Monday, Jaishankar described the situation on the LAC as "very serious", and that "deep conversations at the political level" were needed.