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6/20/2025, 9:27:30 AM No.508068880
https://time.com/7296125/iran-assassination-plot-trump-kill-khamenei-us-israel-carlson-cruz/
TIME MAGAZINE REPORT:
"Trump said he had ordered the annihilation of the state of Iran if it assassinates him.
“That would be a terrible thing for them to do,” he told reporters. “Not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. I’ve left instructions: if they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left.”
Iran is known to conduct assassination plots overseas, usually targeting Iranian dissidents and not always successful. Iranian officials have also been vowing to kill Trump for years after he ordered the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who led the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, in January 2020.
Politico reported last July that the U.S. intelligence community had collected increasing evidence suggesting Iran was actively working on plots to kill Trump. Neither of the attempts that summer on Trump’s life in Butler, Pa., or West Palm Beach, Fla., have been linked to Iran, though the shooter in the latter expressed support for Iran in public writings. But around the same time, a 46-year-old Pakistani national named Asif Merchant was arrested in Texas and charged with seeking to kill high-ranking U.S. politicians or officials—potentially including Trump—allegedly under the instructions of Iran.
In September, Trump’s campaign said he had been briefed on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him.”
“Big threats on my life by Iran,” Trump posted on social media. “The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again.”
In November 2024, after Trump was elected, the Justice Department announced charges against a 51-year-old Afghan national named Farhad Shakeri, who was allegedly tasked by Iranian officials to assemble a plan to surveil and assassinate Trump.
TIME MAGAZINE REPORT:
"Trump said he had ordered the annihilation of the state of Iran if it assassinates him.
“That would be a terrible thing for them to do,” he told reporters. “Not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. I’ve left instructions: if they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left.”
Iran is known to conduct assassination plots overseas, usually targeting Iranian dissidents and not always successful. Iranian officials have also been vowing to kill Trump for years after he ordered the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who led the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, in January 2020.
Politico reported last July that the U.S. intelligence community had collected increasing evidence suggesting Iran was actively working on plots to kill Trump. Neither of the attempts that summer on Trump’s life in Butler, Pa., or West Palm Beach, Fla., have been linked to Iran, though the shooter in the latter expressed support for Iran in public writings. But around the same time, a 46-year-old Pakistani national named Asif Merchant was arrested in Texas and charged with seeking to kill high-ranking U.S. politicians or officials—potentially including Trump—allegedly under the instructions of Iran.
In September, Trump’s campaign said he had been briefed on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him.”
“Big threats on my life by Iran,” Trump posted on social media. “The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again.”
In November 2024, after Trump was elected, the Justice Department announced charges against a 51-year-old Afghan national named Farhad Shakeri, who was allegedly tasked by Iranian officials to assemble a plan to surveil and assassinate Trump.
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