Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured in the leg during an Israeli airstrike last month on a meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, according to an Iranian report.

The attack on the lower floors of a building in western Tehran was carried out on June 16, the semi-official Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported Sunday.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, and other senior officials were at the meeting with Pezeshkian, the report said.

The alleged strike came four days into Israel’s air campaign against Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Six bombs or missiles hit the access and entry points of the building, apparently in an attempt to prevent those inside from leaving, and to prevent air from getting inside, the report said.

Though power to the building was cut off, the officials managed to escape via an emergency hatch, according to the report, which claimed that Pezeshkian and some others suffered injuries to their legs as they were escaping.

Last week, Pezeshkian accused Israel of trying to kill him, telling........

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