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| Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian | Photo: Reuters |
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country (Iran) never plotted to kill US President-elect and Republican leader Donald Trump, a claim he denied in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday.
The US Department of Justice indicted an Iranian national in November last year for an assassination attempt on Trump. The indictment said the attempt was carried out at the behest of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. However, law enforcement agencies foiled the plot before any attack could be carried out.
During the US election campaign last year, Trump also alleged that Iran may have been behind the assassination attempt on him.
Yesterday, NBC News asked Pezeshkian if Iran had any plans to assassinate Trump. Pezeshkian replied, "Never."
Trump won the US presidential election in November last year. He will officially take office as president next Monday. Trump survived two assassination attempts during the election campaign. One attempt took place in September last year. Trump was playing golf at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Earlier, in July last year, there was an attempt to kill Trump while he was holding a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Investigators found that there was no evidence of Iranian involvement in either incident.
Tehran has also denied the US administration's previous allegations that Iran is interfering in US internal affairs in various ways, including through cyber operations.
Iran says the United States has been interfering in its internal affairs for decades, citing many incidents to support the accusation, from a 1953 coup against Iran's prime minister to the killing of an Iranian military commander in a US drone strike in 2020.