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Iranian president lightly wounded while escaping Israeli attack

President Masoud Pezeshkian says Israel tried to kill him - not the United States [File: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.

The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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