Tehran, July 20 -- Amidst a fresh wave of US airstrikes on Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has disclosed details of his high-stakes interactions with Steve Witkoff, the envoy to US President Donald Trump.

Araghchi revealed that he questioned the American diplomat on whether he had ever conducted negotiations under the psychological pressure of believing "the whole meeting might be bombed".

In a recent interview with Iran's state-linked Mehr news agency, the Foreign Minister characterised the environment enveloping the discussions as intensely adversarial, asserting that Iranian representatives had to negotiate under an unrelenting threat of American military strikes.

Revisiting a specific conversation with Witkoff, Araghc...