Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday (Mar 1) that Iran “has always been open to diplomacy”, following US and Israeli air strikes over the weekend that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several top military officials. "This is the second time that we negotiated with Americans, and they decided to attack us right in the middle of the negotiation," Araghchi told Al Jazeera, criticising the timing of the strikes. Khamenei, 86, was killed on Saturday in an air strike