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US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he has directed officials to “bomb” Iran if it succeeds in assassinating him.
In an interview with New York Post, the US President claimed that he has been in the hit list for a long time. “I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with. The only thing is, I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” he told the publication.
US President Donald Trump told the New York Post he has instructed officials to bomb Iran if they succeed in assassinating him, stating he has been on their “hit list” for a long time.
The US President downplayed Israeli intelligence report that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate him. “No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no, I’ve been No. 1 [on Iran’s kill list] for a long time, and it’s the way life is, you know,” Trump told New York Post.
Citing two sources, CNN reported that Iran was coming up with a new plan to kill Trump and Israel shared intelligence with the United States, this week. One of the two sources stated that it might have been an attempt by Israel to influence US President’s decision making on Tehran and “some intelligence community are always skeptical of Israeli reporting”, the people familiar with the matter informed the publication.
The news of the plot was first reported earlier this week by Wall Street Journal.
Trump, responding to the report, stated that he is the ‘number one’ target of Iran’s so-called ‘kill list’.
“Their leaders are gone. Then they had another set of leaders. They’re gone. Now they have another set of leaders. They may be gone, who knows,” he said at a conference at the NATO summit in Turkey. “And you know what? I may be gone too,” Trump added.
“Because I’m their number one target. It’s out all over the place. I’m their number one target,” Trump added. Over the weekend, mourners, who attended Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral, chanted slogans calling for Trump’s assassination.
However, he has been in the Iran’s kill list since he eliminated top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
The tensions between the US and Iran have intensified after Washington carried out retaliatory attacks against Tehran in response to Tehran’s targeting of shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US hit 90 military targets in Iran on Wednesday evening. However, US President has said that the ceasefire is over.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
