Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has denied suggestions that his country plotted to kill United States President-elect Donald Trump after two previous attempts on his life in 2024,
Al Jazeera reports.
In an interview with US media outlet NBC News aired on Tuesday, Pezeshkian also insisted that Iran’s nuclear programme is peaceful and warned Trump against risking “war”.
The interview with the Iranian president, widely viewed as centrist, was aired less than a week before the inauguration of Trump, who during his first term implemented tough policies against Iran.
Pezeshkian told NBC: “We have never attempted this [the assassination bid on Trump] to begin with and we never will.”
In November, the US Department of Justice charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to assassinate the Republican leader. Law enforcement thwarted the alleged plan before any attack was carried out.
Trump said last year during the US election campaign that Iran might have been behind attempts to kill him.
