India, July 7 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Israel tried to assassinate him in a bomb blast during the 12-day war with Iran.

Pezeshkian said he was in a meeting at the time of the Israeli targeted strike, adding that the assassination attempt failed.

The revelation was made during the President's interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson on Monday.

"They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed," Pezeshkian said in the interview in response to a question on whether Israel 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," Masoud Pezeshkian said.

The conflict...