Israeli intelligence has alerted the U.S. to a new Iranian plot aimed at assassinating President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The intelligence warning comes after Iran on Thursday buried Ayatollah Khamenei following a weeklong funeral ceremony. At stage-managed processions, regime operatives called for the murder of President Trump. Mourners carried placards and banners calling for the assassination of President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other U.S. officials.
Calls for the killing of the U.S. president grew even louder as Khamenei was finally buried in his hometown of Mashhad. “Khamenei’s funeral procession reached the country’s holiest shrine with a huge crowd packing the courtyard, some bearing banners denouncing the U.S. president and reading, ‘We Will Kill Trump,'” Reuters reported Thursday.
The latest intelligence underscores an ongoing Iranian campaign against President Trump. In 2024, U.S. authorities foiled a similar Iranian-backed plot, charging three IRGC-linked agents connected to the conspiracy.
The WSJ reported the Israeli warning:
Israel shared new intelligence with the U.S. that it said indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that would mark an escalation in the war between Washington and Iran.Iran for years has vowed openly to retaliate against Trump for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was a top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in the president’s first term. (…)The White House referred The Wall Street Journal to comments the president made on Wednesday.Trump on Wednesday alluded to threats to his life when speaking to reporters in Ankara, Turkey.“They want to take out the U.S. 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.”(…)Iranian mourners at the funeral for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei chanted for Trump’s death, with mourners unveiling a banner that read “We Will Kill Trump.”
Iran’s slain Ayatollah had himself called for assassinating President Trump. In 2022, he posted a computer-generated video of IRGC drones targeting the president in his Mar-a-Lago home. This was supposed to avenge the killing of top Iranian terror operative Qassem Soleimani in a 2020 drone strike in Baghdad.
During the course of Operation Epic Fury, several Iranian regime henchmen threatened to kill President Trump, including Ali Larijan, Iran’s de facto leader following Khamenei’s elimination. Larijan was killed in an Israeli strike in mid-March. Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib, who oversaw plots to assassinate President Trump, was also killed in an Israeli strike around that time.
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