Iran ‘plan to kill Donald Trump’ foiled after Israel shares new intelligence | World | News
Israel has reportedly uncovered intelligence that it said indicated an Iranian plan to kill President Donald Trump. The US ally shared the information with the US, according to people familiar with the matter and reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Iran has spoken of the retaliation against the US leader for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, during his first term.
But tensions have escalated since February 28, when US and Israel carried out joint strikes on several key Iranian sites. Iran’s former supreme leader was killed in strikes early in the conflict.
The WSJ said the White House referred them to comments the president made on Wednesday.
Mr Trump on Wednesday alluded to threats to his life while speaking to reporters in Türkiye.
“They want to take out the US leader – me,” he said.
“I’m on every list. I saw this morning, I’m on every single one of their lists.
“And so far, I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long.”
Iranians mourned the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday and chanted for Mr Trump’s death, with some unveiling a banner that read “We Will Kill Trump.”
The US and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on June 17 to bring the war to a close within 60 days.
Washington and Tehran were working towards securing a lasting peace agreement, restore international shipping through the critical Strait of Hormuz and seek to settle an ongoing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
But Mr Trump said the ceasefire is “over” at a NATO summit in Türkiye on Wednesday.
He told reporters: “I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum.”
Mr Trump was forced to make a dramatic, late-night aircraft switch at a UK military base following chilling assassination threats from Iran, the Express reported on Thursday.
The US President ditched his newly gifted, multi-million-pound Qatari jet to fly out of the NATO summit aboard his older, more heavily fortified Air Force One plane.
The sudden swap was ordered by the US Secret Service as an urgent “security precaution”.
