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US intelligence sources say Pezeshkian was injured in Israeli strike last month
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Two US intelligence sources tell CBS News that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured in an Israeli airstrike last month, corroborating an Iranian report on the matter.
The officials, who are not identified by name, tell CBS that the strike was carried out while Pezeshkian was attending a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Earlier this month, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that the June 16 strike had targeted the lower floors of the building in western Tehran where the council was meeting.
It said that Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, and other senior officials were at the meeting with Pezeshkian.
Six bombs or missiles hit the access and entry points of the building, apparently in an attempt to prevent those inside from leaving, and to prevent air from getting inside, the report said.
Though power to the building was cut off, the officials managed to escape via an emergency hatch, according to the report, which claimed that Pezeshkian and some others suffered injuries to their legs as they were escaping.
CBS News says that it is unclear whether Pezeshkian was the intended target of the strikes, the report adds.
The Times of Israel Community.