Iranian president claims Israel tried to kill him

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claims that Israel attempted to assassinate him, in an interview with American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.

Masoud Pezeshkian, president of Iran.

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“They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed,” Pezeshkian says in response to Carlson’s question about whether he believes Israel tried to kill him.

Pezeshkian does not specify the date of the alleged assassination attempt, nor whether it occurred during Israel’s 12-day aerial campaign against Iran last month.

Asked how he is certain of an attempt on his life, he replies: “Of course, it was not the United States that was behind the attempt on my life… It was Israel,” according to a Persian-to-English translation provided in the interview.

“I was in a meeting… but thanks to the intelligence by the spies that they had, they tried to bombard the area in which we were holding that meeting,” he says.

During the interview with Carlson, Pezeshkian also says his country has “no problem” restarting nuclear talks, provided that trust can be reestablished with the US.

“We see no problem in reentering the negotiations,” the Iranian president says.

“There is a condition… for restarting the talks. How are we going to trust the United States again? We reentered the negotiations, then how can we know for sure that in the middle of the talks the Israeli regime will not be given the permission again to attack us?”