In an interview with Tucker Carlson, President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed Israel, backed by the U.S., tried and failed to assassinate him.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has claimed that Israel, with support from the United States, tried to assassinate him during a meeting. In a high-profile interview with American political commentator Tucker Carlson,

Tucker Carlson announced that he did the interview despite the expected backlash so that the American people have access "to all of the information they can gather about matters that affect them."