Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused Israel of attempting to assassinate him, without specifying when, in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson that aired Monday, according to Sky News Arabia.

Pzeshkian said, "They tried, yes. They acted in that way, but they failed."

He added: "It was not the United States that was behind the attempt to kill me. It was Israel. I was in a meeting...They tried to bomb the area where we were holding the meeting."

"This was Israel," he explained, according to a translation of his remarks from Persian, without clarifying whether the assassination attempt occurred during the war between the two countries in June.