Iran's parliament has a motion to impeach Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi over his talks with Trump's envoys. Will it vote by Oct 21?
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Iran's parliament had not held a no-confidence vote on Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi by Oct. 21, 2026, and the impeachment effort remained stalled at an early procedural stage. A group of hardline lawmakers led by MP Amirhossein Sabeti filed the motion in early October, citing an unauthorized September 22 meeting between Araghchi and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in New York that the lawmakers said lacked approval from Iran's supreme leader. Under Iranian parliamentary procedure, a registered impeachment motion must first be referred to the body's presiding board and go through a plenary session, where the minister answers questions, before a no-confidence vote can be scheduled. As of late October, that referral had not been completed, according to a parliamentary spokesman, meaning no vote date had even been set, let alone held.
Half the bettors on the market had predicted a vote by Oct. 21, but the process never advanced that far. The episode reflected wider friction between hardline factions and President Masoud Pezeshkian's government over its diplomatic engagement with Washington amid the broader Iran-U.S. standoff, with lawmakers continuing to press stalled impeachment motions against Araghchi and other ministers well into late October.