{"id":310823,"date":"2025-06-21T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310823"},"modified":"2025-06-22T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:36:41","slug":"iran-foils-major-israeli-plot-to-assassinate-fm-araghchi-before-crunch-eu-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310823","title":{"rendered":"Iran foils ‘major Israeli plot’ to assassinate FM Araghchi before crunch EU talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian Foreign Minister Abba Araghchi<\/p>\n

Saber Gul Anbari in Tehran \u2013 The New Arab June 20, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Members of an Israel-backed “terrorist cell” allegedly plotting to assassinate Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi<\/a> have been arrested in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iranian<\/a> media reported the development on Thursday, with the foreign minister’s advisor Hossein Ranjbaran announcing that “a major Israeli plot<\/a>” to assassinate Araghchi had been foiled a few days ago.<\/p>\n

The suspected plot came to light days before Araghchi’s planned trip to Geneva<\/a> on Friday, in a bid to resume diplomatic negotiations with a number of European representatives regarding Iran’s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

Araghchi is scheduled to hold talks with French, UK, and German foreign ministers, as well as the European Commission’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas.<\/p>\n

Araghchi has proceeded with his travel plans and headed to Geneva to meet with his European counterparts despite the alleged plot.<\/p>\n

Israel has assassinated a slew of prominent Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists in its unprecedented assault on Iran that began at dawn last Friday.<\/p>\n

Among the most prominent figures it has succeeded in assassinating are Major General Mohammad Bagheri, IRGC Commander-in-Chief General Hossein Salami, Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran; nuclear scientist Mehdi Tehranchi, who was also President of the Islamic Azad University; and Major general Gholam Ali Rashid, head of the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (one of the command headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces).<\/p>\n

There have been rumours that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be the next target of Israeli air strikes.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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