The top US Intel sources confirmed the reports of Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian being injured in last month's Israeli attack.
According to reports, the Iranian president suffered minor injuries in one of the Israeli air attacks on Tehran. The sources cited by reports said the Iranian media also confirmed the incident took place when Massoud Pezeshkian was attending a Supreme National Security Council meeting.
The reports said that the president suffered injuries in his leg while escaping through an emergency shaft. It remains unclear if Pezeshkian was targeted in the Israeli attack, but several senior military officials, as well as senior nuclear scientists, were killed in Israeli targeted assassinations during the intense 12-day conflict.
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Pezeshkian also acknowledged that Israel had tried multiple times to assassinate him, though none succeeded. Earlier on June 16, reports from the Iranian state news agency quoted IRGC sources saying six bombs targeted both access and entry points of a secret underground facility in Tehran where Pezeshkian was attending an emergency meeting of the Supreme National Security Council.
Though the reports at the time were not confirmed nor rejected by the Iranian side, it has now become clear after Pezeshkian accepted that Israel had tried to assassinate him during the 12-day conflict.
On 13 June, Israel carried out what it called preventive air strikes on Iran to limit its capability of acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran retaliated with a series of drone and missile attacks, saying their nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes.
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