Trump had said last year during the US election campaign that Iran might have been behind attempts to kill him.
Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, has stated that his country never plotted to kill Republican United States President-elect, Donald Trump.
Trump had said last year during the US election campaign that Iran might have been behind attempts to kill him.
In November 2024, the U.S. Justice Department also charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps to assassinate the U.S. president-elect.
The law enforcement had thwarted the alleged plan before any attack was carried out.
However, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in an NBC News interview on Tuesday, denied past claims from Trump and the U.S. government.
Pezeshkian also insisted that Iran’s nuclear programme is peaceful and warned Trump against risking “war”.
“We have never attempted this (the assassination bid on Trump) to begin with and we never will.”
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.
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.
The 78-year-old who won last year’s US election, and will take office on Monday, survived two assassination attempts during the campaign – one in September while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, and another during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Iran has also previously denied US claims of interfering in US affairs, including through cyber-operations.