Trump Says Iran Has Long Put Him First on Kill List
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President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has put him at the top of its assassination target list for years and that he left instructions for massive retaliation if Tehran succeeds. His remarks followed public threats at Ali Khamenei's burial and reports that Israeli intelligence had warned Washington about an Iranian plot, though Trump said he saw no new Israeli-discovered plan and framed the danger as longstanding. Hebrew and international reports also noted his statement that Iran asked to continue talks while he declared the ceasefire over. The sequence places Tehran's assassination threats alongside the renewed U.S.-Iran escalation, the Air Force One security change and the nuclear-talk track shaping Israeli and American coordination this week.
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Sources factually disagree on whether the latest Israeli intelligence showed a fresh specific plot: Fox News and Al-Monitor cite reports that Israel recently shared intelligence or a warning about a specific alleged Iranian plan to assassinate Trump, while the New York Post reports Trump said Israel came up with nothing new and described Iran's threat as longstanding. The remaining facts are uniform: Trump described himself as a longstanding top Iranian target, he said he left instructions for retaliation if Tehran succeeds, and the reports place the remarks amid renewed U.S.-Iran escalation and ceasefire collapse.
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