‘‘Chance of being bombed at any moment’: What Iran’s Abbas Araghchi told Trump’s envoy Witkoff during talks

Beuro New Delhi: 19 July 2026

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has spoken of how hostile the environment was even when he and other officials from Tehran were holding talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff. He said he asked Witkoff during the talks whether he had ever sat in talks with “a chance of being bombed at any moment”. It was not clear which part or location of the talks he was referring to.