{"id":1745,"date":"2025-07-14T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/iranian-president-lightly-wounded-while-escaping-israeli-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:38:09","slug":"iranian-president-lightly-wounded-while-escaping-israeli-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/iranian-president-lightly-wounded-while-escaping-israeli-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian president lightly wounded while escaping Israeli attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More details emerge on June assassination attempt on President Masoud Pezeshkian and other officials by Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis attempt will not pass without Israel paying a price,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

The strike was carried out shortly before noon during a meeting attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government along with other senior officials.<\/p>\n

The semiofficial Fars news agency also reported new details on the assassination attempt during Israel\u2019s 12-day war<\/a> with Iran, which was first announced by the Iranian president in an interview released on Monday.<\/p>\n

The session was taking place in the lower level of a government facility in western Tehran when the attack started, Fars reported. The building\u2019s entrances and exits were hit by six missiles to block escape routes and cut off air flow.<\/p>\n

Electricity was severed following the explosions, but Iranian officials managed to escape through a pre-designated emergency hatch, including the president, who is said to have sustained minor leg injuries while evacuating.<\/p>\n

The news agency said authorities launched an investigation into the possible presence of Israeli spies given the accuracy of the intelligence the \u201cenemy\u201d possessed.<\/p>\n

\u2018They did try\u2019<\/h2>\n

Last week, Pezeshkian said in an interview with US media figure Tucker Carlson that Israel attempted to assassinate him.\u00a0\u201cThey did try, yes \u2026 but they failed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not the United States that was behind the attempt on my life. It was Israel. I was in a meeting\u2026 They tried to bombard the area in which we were holding that meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments come less than a month after Israel launched its unprecedented June 13 bombing campaign against Iran<\/a>, killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.<\/p>\n

The Israeli attacks took place two days before Tehran and Washington were set to meet for a new round of nuclear talks, stalling negotiations aimed at reaching a deal over Iran\u2019s atomic programme.<\/p>\n

At least 1,060 people were killed in Iran during the conflict, according to Iran\u2019s Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n

The Israeli attacks drew waves of retaliatory drone and missile fire, killing 28 people in Israel, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Iran targeted Israeli military and intelligence headquarters with ballistic missiles and drones before the US brokered a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More details emerge on June assassination attempt on President Masoud Pezeshkian and other officials by Israel. Iran\u2019s 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}