The editor of Iran’s Kayhan newspaper has lambasted President Masoud Pezeshkian for his remarks to a US media outlet denying that the Islamic Republic ever sought to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.In an interview with NBC News this week, Pezeshkian claimed Iran has never aimed to kill Trump in retaliation for the US’ 2020 assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Why did you allowed the NBC journalist to put Iran, instead of the US, in the dock? We are not terrorists, but we do consider Trump and some of his associates – such as Mike Pompeo, Trump’s Secretary of State – deserving of death for their role in the assassination of General Soleimani and his companions,” Kayhan editor Hossein Shariatmadari wrote in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper.Shariatmadari was personally appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 1993.Killing Trump and others involved in