Israel has reportedly provided the United States with intelligence pointing to a fresh plot by Iran to assassinate former President Donald Trump. This revelation has added a new layer of tension to international relations.
According to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal, this assassination scheme is the latest in a series of threats from the Iranian regime. These threats stem from their desire to retaliate against Trump for the 2020 US airstrike that killed Qasem Soleimani, a high-ranking official within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When approached for a statement, the White House directed inquiries to comments previously made by Trump at a NATO summit in Ankara, reflecting the gravity of the situation.
“They want to eliminate the American leader — me,” Trump remarked. “I’m listed on all their target sheets. I realized this morning that I’m on each and every one of them. Until now, I’ve had some luck, but who knows how long that will hold out.”
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“These are evil, sick people,” the president continued. “And we have to root out that cancer. That cancer. You know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.”
Trump traveled to Turkey on his new Qatari “palace in the sky” plane, but took a different Air Force One home. The plane switch was a strategic “distraction” to keep the commander-in-chief safe, the White House said.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who accompanied the president to the summit, was instructed not to travel to Israel as planned shortly before Trump chose to switch planes in Turkey. It’s unclear if the Iranian threat extended to the war secretary.
The Wall Street Journal report did not include details of the alleged assassination plot.