Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson asked Iranian President Masoud Pezeshhkian if his country had ever plotted an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
In an attempt to convince the U.S. to take military action against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News in June that Iran’s regime wants to “kill” Trump and views him as “enemy number one.” Pezeshhkian disputed this claim, and accused Netanyahu of trying “to drag the U.S. into forever wars.”
“Has Iran ever backed an assassination attempt against Donald Trump?” Carlson asked.
“This is actually what Netanyahu is trying to insinuate and to make your people or the president of your country to believe. But this is wrong because Netanyahu, who has his own agenda, wants to drag the U.S. into forever wars as I said and to bring insecurity and instability and onwards to the whole region,” Pezeshhkian said.
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In November, the Department of Justice charged Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Iranian national, and others with murder-for-hire and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization in connection to his alleged plot to kill Trump. Federal prosecutors alleged that the Iranian regime “tasked” Shakeri in October 2024 with proposing a plan to carry out the assassination on Trump and a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin.
The Iranian regime had plotted several assassination attempts on Trump in recent years. After he won the 2024 election, officials in Iran were considering reconciling and negotiating with Trump rather than continue to act adversarily against him.
Trump said in February that Iran would be “obliterated” if they succeeded in assassinating him.
“If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump said. “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”
During Israel and Iran’s conflict, Trump announced the “very successful attack” on Iranian nuclear sites on June 21.