New Delhi, July 7 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has made a sensational claim that Israel had attempted to assassinate him during a 12-day war between the two arch foes in June.

Pezeshkian made the remarks in an interview released on Monday.

"They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed," Pezeshkian said in Persian 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 added.

Israel had launched its airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilitieson June 13, killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

The 12...