New Delhi, May 11 -- TV celebrity and former army officer Gaurav Arya has sparked a outrage and a brief diplomatic row after he called Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi a 'son of a pig' on air. Araghchi was in India on an official visit on 8 May and met President Draupadi Mumu and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi.

Arya, as seen in the now-viral video, criticises Araghchi for visiting Pakistan before traveling to India for talks amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly civilians, on 22 April.

"He was in Pakistan and met top leadership including Shehbaz Sharif.Then he came to India. This man, this 'son of a pig' h...