The National Security Council meeting was taking place on the lower floors of a building in western Tehran before noon on Monday, June 26, when the Israeli attack began, the Fars news agency reported.
Fars described the attack as being similar to a previous Israeli assassination operation which killed the secretary-general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in September last year: “The attackers targeted the entrances and exits of the building by firing six bombs and missiles to block escape routes and cut off the airflow.”
According to the report, electricity on the floor was also cut off after the explosions. But Iranian officials managed to get out of the building through an emergency hatch.
Some officials, including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, suffered “small injuries” to their legs while leaving, Fars reported.
According to the report, given Israel's intelligence accuracy in the attack, the Islamic Republic of Iran's intelligence agencies are investigating “the possibility of an infiltrator.”
Earlier, in a conversation with Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News presenter and American media personality, President Pezeshkian said that Israel “tried” to assassinate him during the 12-day war.
Responding to a question about whether he believed Israel intended his life, the president said: “Yes, they tried. They took action, but they failed,” he said.
Pointing out that the effort had not been made by the United States, he added: “It was Israel's job, not America's. I attended an internal meeting. They tried to bomb the area where we were meeting. But no accident happens when God wills it.”
Ali Larijani, an adviser to Islamic Republic of Iran leader Ali Khamenei, had also earlier spoken of Israel's attempt to “bomb all heads of power” during the 12-day war.
