Iran president says there was never a plot to kill Trump

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vehemently denied any plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump following the Justice Department’s November charges against three individuals involved in a murder-for-hire case targeting the Republican. 

“We have never attempted this to begin with and we never will,” Pezeshkian said in an interview with NBC News set to air on Wednesday evening.

The leader speculated Israel or another country promoted the theory to spur “Iranophobia.” The...