Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said during an interview published on Monday that Israel had attempted to assassinate him.

“They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed,” Pezeshkian told American media personality Tucker Carlson in response to a question on whether he believed Israel had tried to kill him.

“It was not the United States that was behind the attempt on my life. It was Israel. I was in a meeting… they tried to bombard the area in which we were holding that meeting,” he said, without specifying whether the alleged attempt was during the recent 12-day conflict. 

Pezeshkian said Iran had “no problem” restarting nuclear talks with the US.

“We see no problem in re-entering the negotiations,” he told Carlson. “There is a condition… for restarting the talks. How are we going to trust the United States again?”