The Iranian President denied the Islamic Republic has ever attempted to take the life of incoming President Donald Trump. The FBI charged a man for allegedly playing a role in an Iranian plot to murder the former and future president.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with NBC News that aired on Tuesday, “We have never attempted this [the assassination bid on Trump] to begin with and we never will.”
Trump was nearly killed in Pennsylvania in July when Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him in the ear. Two months later, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on a golf course in Florida. Tehran was not involved in either plot.
In November, the Department of Justice charged Farhad Shakeri for working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to kill Trump. The case relies on Shakeri’s testimony and the charging documents concede that he is a liar.