Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview released on Monday (Jul 7) 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 United States 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 ... (full story)