TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview released on Monday that Israel, which last month fought a 12-day war with Iran, had attempted to assassinate him.
“They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed,” Pezeshkian told US media figure Tucker Carlson in response to a question on whether he believed Israel had tried to kill him.
“It was not the United States that was behind the attempt on my life. It was Israel. I was in a meeting… they tried to bombard the area in which we were holding that meeting,” he said according to a translation of his remarks from Persian, without specifying whether the alleged attempt was during the recent war.
Masoud Pezeshkian, president of Iran.
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The remarks came as a US envoy said on Monday he was “unbelievably satisfied” with Lebanon’s reply to a US proposal on disarming Hezbollah, the strongest of Iranian proxies in Middle East, following meetings in Beirut held hours after Israel launched new air strikes and a cross-border incursion.
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Israel crushed the leadership of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in a bombing campaign last year, one of many fronts on which it has inflicted severe blows against Iran and its allies since the start of the war in Gaza in 2023.
‘NO PROBLEM’ IN RE-ENTERING IRAN-US TALKS
At the same time, Pezeshkian said that his country has “no problem” restarting nuclear talks with the United States, provided that trust can be reestablished between the two countries.
“We see no problem in re-entering the negotiations,” Pezeshkian told Carlson. “There is a condition … for restarting the talks. How are we going to trust the United States again?”
SYRIAN QUESTION
Since Oct 7, 2023 attacks, Israel with an active US support has been trying to weaken the Iranian influence in the region by striking hard against its allies in the Middle East.
With US President Donald Trump pressing ahead with his plans to expand the Abraham Accords, Syria, which is now ruled by Ahmed Al-Sharaa, said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to reimplement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the two countries’ forces.
The development comes as Iran lost its strong ally Bashar al-Assad in December last, when the forces led by Al-Sharaa overthrew his government.
It’s a developing story. Details to follow