Iran's leader made the claim less than a week before the president-elect returns to the White House. In his first term, Trump took a tough line on Iran.

The Iranian government has denied it plotted to kill US President-elect Donald Trump, just before his inauguration takes place on January 20. Speaking on NBC News, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said: “This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia.”

Iran “never” plotted to assassinate Donald Trump during last year’s US election campaign and never will in the future,

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has denied allegations of an assassination plot targeting US President-elect Donald Trump, calling the claims baseless. In an exclusive NBC News interview, Pezeshkian rejected the notion of Iran planning to harm Trump,

Speaking with NBC News’ Lester Holt, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denied his government plotted to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump last year.

Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, says his country has never plotted to kill Republican U.S. President-elect, Donald Trump. DAILY POST recalls that in November, the U.S. Justice Department charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps to assassinate Trump.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian dismissed allegations that Iran plotted to assassinate U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. In an NBC News interview, Pezeshkian stated, We have never attempted this to begin with and