Iranian president says Iran “never” planned to kill Trump during campaign

MADRID Jan 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian has assured that Iran “never” planned to kill the current president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, during his election campaign, despite the fact that US authorities accused an Iranian citizen in November 2024 of organizing a contract murder against the then presidential candidate in what was presented as a plot orchestrated by Tehran.

“This is another of those plans that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia… Iran has never attempted nor plans to assassinate anyone, at least as far as I know,” the Iranian president declared in an interview with the network. American television channel NBC.

When asked if “there was never an Iranian plot” to kill Trump, Pezeshkian said “never at all.” Regarding whether he is willing to promise that there will be no attempt on Trump’s life, he noted that Tehran “never” has tried and “never” will.

According to Washington, the alleged plot orchestrated by Iran would be related to a broader pattern of threats against former Trump Administration officials in retaliation for the death of General Qasem Soleimani in a US bombing in Iraq in January 2020.

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Pezeshkian, who has presented himself as a moderate, has maintained that his government is open to dialogue with the second Trump administration, although he has clarified that the US authorities have not fulfilled their commitments in the past and have tried to overthrow the government. Iranian.

“The problem we have is not in the dialogue, but in the commitments that arise from the conversation and the dialogue that we will have to assume,” he said, highlighting that they have “fulfilled all the commitments” that they had to assume, while “the another party (was) the one that unfortunately did not fulfill its obligations.”

In this sense, he added that they have the doubt that “no matter how much” they talk, “they are trying to overthrow the Government and not solve the problems.” “Of course, we will react to any action. We do not fear war, but we do not seek it. I solemnly hope that this does not happen because it will be to the detriment of all actors, not just us,” he stated.

Regarding the situation in the Middle East, he has denied that Iran’s position has weakened after the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime in Syria, the casualties on the part of Israel against the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah and the Resistance Movement. Islamic (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, or the Israeli attacks on Iranian territory.

“Compared to last year within the country, we are more coherent. More solid. We have more solid security,” he stated. Regarding whether his cabinet is part of the negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Pezeshkian has declared that he is doing “everything possible so that peace prevails in the region.”