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.

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

In an interview, Masoud Pezeshkian denied suggestions Teheran plotted to kill the President-elect after two previous attempts on his life

Iran never plotted to kill Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an NBC News interview on Tuesday, denying past claims from Trump and the U.S. government.

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

Iranian operatives were charged with hacking the Trump campaign in September. Last November, Justice Department official

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.