Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured in the leg during an Israeli strike last month that targeted a meeting of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council, the Fars news agency reported on July 13.
According to the report, the strike targeted the lower floors of a building in the west part of the capital, Tehran on June 16, just three days into the Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, and other senior Iranian officials were at the meeting with Pezeshkian.
Six bombs or missiles hit the access and entry points of the building, apparently in an attempt to prevent those inside from leaving, and to prevent air from getting inside, Fars said, adding that the officials managed to escape via an emergency hatch despite a power outage caused by the strike.
Pezeshkian and some other officials suffered injuries to their legs as they were escaping. Fars noted that the apparently accurate information Israel had in planning and carrying out the strikes has led Iranian authorities to probe whether the Israelis had inside information.
The London-based satellite news channel Iran International on June 16 had reported an Israeli attack on an area near Shahrak-e Gharb in western Tehran.
The Israeli war on Iran came to an end on June 24, just two days after the United States joined the war by targeting three key nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic.
Last week, Pezeshkian accused Israel of trying to kill him, telling American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in an interview that he was in a meeting and “thanks to the intelligence by the spies that they had, they tried to bombard the area in which we were holding that meeting.”
Israel killed more than 30 senior Iranian military commanders during the war, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Gen. Hossein Salami; the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh; and Mohammad Bagheri, a major general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the second-in-command of the armed forces after the Iranian leader.
In addition, at least 11 of the Islamic Republic’s top nuclear scientists were assassinated by Israel in the course of the 12-day war.
Israel repeatedly stated during the war that it was not after a “regime change” in Iran. However, Defense Minister Israel Katz acknowledged after the ceasefire that they wanted to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the opportunity never presented itself. This and the attempt on Pezeshkian’s life show that Israel was indeed looking for some form of a political change in Tehran.
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we know it’s old news last months.
the jooz and their western toadies have gone full terrorist in lebanon, ukraine and iran now, merz’s dreckarbeit, to compensate for their weakness. that means that anything goes now. any leading figure, chump, merz, macron, king of england, are now fair game. random bombings and shootings to cause mass civilian casualties, everything is now on the table and perfectly legitimate and acceptable. welcome to the new world the jooz have brought us..
boom boom boom, hey mullahs just run from iran.
cow woshipper is into genocide now
iranians are not cowards, remember who begged trump to get involved on their behalf.
and still pezeshkian wants to normalize relations with the west? they will kill him the first chance they get. he needs to do the same as medvedev in russia. he was west leaning at one time, now he is more hawk than putin. when do they learn that all talk with them is only a prelude to attacks. they want iran in pieces, not peace. nuke ‘talks’ are a red herring for show, an excuse for war.
i don’t believe him. when mr. valery zaluzhny was wounded, no one saw him for two months. the russians bragged about killing a popular ukrainian army commander and we all believed the putler’s lies. then german nurses spread the information that mr. zalužní was alive and in a german intensive care unit. so, mr. zaluzhny is alive and has never been a traitor and a prostitute, which we cannot say about pezeshkian.
miguel uribe and valery zaluzhny will win elections in colombia and ukraine, while in iran will be installed the shah without elections.
i personally think that pezeshkian is a traitor, because i can imagine his betrayal of hezbollah and assad any way.
this one they don´t kill… interesting… weak president, weak ayatollah, iran paid the price of refusing an military agreement with russia, like north korea… but north korea has real men, they have balls to make nukes… iran in other hand…
a little psyops wouldn´t be bad against jabotinsky evil entity (extreme right wing israel)… everyone should try to “normalize” relations with israhell in exchange of stopping the genocide and ethnic cleansing of palestinians… they will refuse of course, because israhell loves palestinian and arab/muslim blood! crusaders of modern days… they have the same “morality”
i believe this zi0ni$t p0$ “rag” as much as i believe tyler durden of zh who is also a closet zioni$t who takes his money and looks the other way with his most recent read this morning – “putin shifts iran stance? now reportedly supports zero enrichment plan backed by us”… got kicked off his site for speaking the truth to 9/11 lies…
id figure he would want to continue to assault israel with the big guns after that. i heard he was a heart surgeon and he wants to compromise with israel, america and the west.
good luck with that compromise and get along thing. i’m sure he’s brilliant at biology, science and what not. but when it comes to reading the political tea leaves, he seems off by a long shot.