Israel planned to kill Iranian negotiators amid peace talks

FOREIGN MINISTER of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Speaker of Iran Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf with the delegation of Iran at the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026.
FOREIGN MINISTER of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Speaker of Iran Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf with the delegation of Iran at the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026.
(photo credit: Urs Flueeler/Pool via REUTERS)

US officials believed Israel may have planned to use the negotiations between the US and Iran as a window of opportunity to kill Iran’s top negotiators, the New York Times reported on Thursday. 

According to the report, US officials were particularly concerned that Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would be targeted during the cease-fire negotiations beginning in April. 

While targeting high-level government officials was one of the goals at the start of the war, which began with the joint US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, after talks began, US officials feared that any attempt on Iranian leaders' lives would reignite the fighting, the NYT wrote. 

US officials were reportedly so concerned, they reached out to other Middle Eastern countries to warn Iran of the potential danger to Ghalibaf and Araghchi. 

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