Trump Issues Threats To ‘Destroy’ Iran

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran should be threatened with “destroying” it if it attacked a candidate in the US presidential election, after reporting threats from Tehran targeting him....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

“But if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country — in this case, Iran — that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We are going to blow it to smithereens,” the Republican candidate said at a campaign rally.

The former president, the target of two assassination attempts on July 13 and September 15, assured on Tuesday that his life was directly threatened by Iran, in a context of redoubled hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese political movement and official military allied with Tehran.

Donald Trump’s campaign team said that they were informed by US intelligence of “real and specific threats” of assassination against the Republican candidate, emanating from Iran.

US intelligence confirmed this meeting to AFP, without giving further details. Similar accusations had been rejected by Iran during the summer and described as “malicious”.

In a highly critical report on the security arrangements around Donald Trump at the rally in Pennsylvania where he was shot in the ear on July 13, a US Senate committee emphasizes that the deployment of a Secret Service countersniper team was assigned to a protectee other than the president, vice president or a presidential candidate who had been formally nominated by his or her party — Trump was days away from being officially nominated, wrote the Washington Post.

The decision to strengthen Donald Trump’s security was taken in early July “following news of an Iranian threat on his life,” the commission said in an interim report published Wednesday. It did not specify the nature or origin of the threat, which is partly classified, but several American media outlets claim that it is a reference to previous accusations against Tehran.

On July 16, several American media outlets reported a recent increase in the protection of the former president due to the “threat” of an Iranian plan to kill him. In August, the United States announced that it had foiled a plan to assassinate a US official fomented by a Pakistani they said was linked to Tehran, to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed in 2020 in a strike in Iraq ordered by Donald Trump.

For Donald Trump’s spokesman, these “threats” illustrate the fact that “the terror regime in Iran loves the weakness of Kamala Harris, and is terrified of the strength and resolve of President Trump.”

On September 15, a man was arrested after being put on the run by Secret Service agents who spotted him with a gun near the golf course where Donald Trump was playing in Florida. Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old pro-Ukrainian American, was charged Tuesday with an attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The United States has now suffered two assassination attempts against the former president in the last three months. It is outrageous, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday.

The United States also blamed Iran in August for hacking attempts against the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, including one revealed on August 10 by the Republican candidate’s team.

Iranian hackers sent documents “stolen” from Donald Trump’s campaign to the campaign team of outgoing President Joe Biden, who has since withdrawn from the race for the White House, according to US authorities…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLES>>>