07 Jul 2025 19:21 PM Iranian President accuses Israel of assassination attempt
Pzeshkian said, "They tried, yes. They acted in that way, but they failed."
He added: "It was not the United States that was behind the attempt to kill me. It was Israel. I was in a meeting...They tried to bomb the area where we were holding the meeting."
"This was Israel," he explained, according to a translation of his remarks from Persian, without clarifying whether the assassination attempt occurred during the war between the two countries in June.
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