New Delhi, May 8 -- External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Thursday held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in New Delhi, stating that his visit comes at a time when India is responding to the barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack by striking the terror infrastructure in neighbouring Pakistan in a "targetted and measured" manner.

He also made it clear that it is not India's intention to escalate the current situation. "You are visiting India at a time when we are responding to a particularly barbaric terrorist attack on 22 April in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

This attack compelled us to respond on 7th May by striking at cross-border terrorist infrastructure. Our response was targetted a...