Iranian president denies assassination plots against Trump, blasts 'Iranophobia'

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday denied that his country had plotted to assassination President-elect Donald Trump and blamed Israel for promoting "Iranophobia."

“We have never attempted this to begin with and we never will," he told NBC News's Lester Holt.

“This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia," he also said. Iran has never attempted to nor does it plan to assassinate anyone. At least as far as I know.”