diff --git a/packages/components/nodes/agentflow/Iteration/Iteration.ts b/packages/components/nodes/agentflow/Iteration/Iteration.ts
index 048035fb2..53026bb53 100644
--- a/packages/components/nodes/agentflow/Iteration/Iteration.ts
+++ b/packages/components/nodes/agentflow/Iteration/Iteration.ts
@@ -39,12 +39,17 @@ class Iteration_Agentflow implements INode {
         const iterationInput = nodeData.inputs?.iterationInput
 
         // Helper function to clean JSON strings with redundant backslashes
-        const cleanJsonString = (str: string): string => {
-            return str.replace(/\\(["'[\]{}])/g, '$1')
+        const safeParseJson = (str: string): string => {
+            try {
+                return JSON.parse(str)
+            } catch {
+                // Try parsing after cleaning
+                return JSON.parse(str.replace(/\\(["'[\]{}])/g, '$1'))
+            }
         }
 
         const iterationInputArray =
-            typeof iterationInput === 'string' && iterationInput !== '' ? JSON.parse(cleanJsonString(iterationInput)) : iterationInput
+            typeof iterationInput === 'string' && iterationInput !== '' ? safeParseJson(iterationInput) : iterationInput
 
         if (!iterationInputArray || !Array.isArray(iterationInputArray)) {
             throw new Error('Invalid input array')