Iranian president lightly wounded while escaping Israeli attack

More details look connected June assassination effort connected President Masoud Pezeshkian and different officials by Israel.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered insignificant injuries successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected a gathering of the Supreme National Security Council successful Tehran connected June 15, a elder Iranian authoritative said.

The assassination effort targeted the heads of the 3 branches of authorities successful an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking connected information of anonymity.

“This effort volition not walk without Israel paying a price,” helium told Al Jazeera.

The onslaught was carried retired soon earlier noon during a gathering attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the authorities on with different elder officials.

The semiofficial Fars quality bureau besides reported caller details connected the assassination effort during Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, which was archetypal announced by the Iranian president successful an interrogation released connected Monday.

The league was taking spot successful the little level of a authorities installation successful occidental Tehran erstwhile the onslaught started, Fars reported. The building’s entrances and exits were deed by six missiles to artifact flight routes and chopped disconnected aerial flow.

Electricity was severed pursuing the explosions, but Iranian officials managed to flight done a pre-designated exigency hatch, including the president, who is said to person sustained insignificant limb injuries portion evacuating.

The quality bureau said authorities launched an probe into the imaginable beingness of Israeli spies fixed the accuracy of the quality the “enemy” possessed.

‘They did try’

Last week, Pezeshkian said successful an interrogation with US media fig Tucker Carlson that Israel attempted to assassinate him. “They did try, yes … but they failed,” helium said.

“It was not the United States that was down the effort connected my life. It was Israel. I was successful a meeting… They tried to bombard the country successful which we were holding that meeting.”

The comments travel little than a period aft Israel launched its unprecedented June 13 bombing run against Iran, sidesplitting apical subject commanders and atomic scientists.

The Israeli attacks took spot 2 days earlier Tehran and Washington were acceptable to conscionable for a caller circular of atomic talks, stalling negotiations aimed astatine reaching a woody implicit Iran’s atomic programme.

At slightest 1,060 radical were killed successful Iran during the conflict, according to Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.

The Israeli attacks drew waves of retaliatory drone and rocket fire, sidesplitting 28 radical successful Israel, according to authorities.

Iran targeted Israeli subject and quality office with ballistic missiles and drones earlier the US brokered a ceasefire.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies