INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iran never plotted to kill Republican United States President-elect Donald Trump, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an NBC News
interview on Tuesday, denying past claims from Trump and the United States government, Reuters reported.In November, the United States
Justice Department charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran&s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps to
assassinate the United States president-elect
Law enforcement thwarted the alleged plan before any attack was carried out.Trump also said last year during the United States election
campaign that Iran may have been behind attempts to kill him, read the report.None whatsoever,& Pezeshkian said on NBC News, when asked if
there was an Iranian plan to kill Trump
&We have never attempted this to begin with and we never will.Trump, who won last year&s United States election and will take office on
Monday, survived two assassination attempts during the campaign & one in September while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach,
Florida, and another during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania
Investigators have found no evidence of Iranian involvement in either.Iran has also previously denied United States claims of interfering
in American affairs, including through cyber operations, Reuters reported.Tehran says Washington has interfered in its affairs for decades,
citing events ranging from a 1953 coup against a prime minister to the 2020 killing of its military commander in a United States drone
strike.The post Iran never plotted to kill Donald Trump, Iranian president says first appeared on Ariana News.
