President Trump Opens Up On What Would Unfold If Iran Assassinated Him
One senior intelligence source informed CBS that the president “held off from initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme.”
On Wednesday, Trump spoke to the press and seemed to enjoy keeping everyone uncertain about his next move: “I may do it, I may not do it.”
When reporters pushed him on how Iran would respond to being given no conditions for negotiation, he casually replied: “Good luck.”
He added shortly after: “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
He continued by saying: “Unconditional surrender – that means I’ve had it.”
Just a few hours before Trump’s comments, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had already issued his own response to the demands.
He cautioned that “any US military intervention” would come at a high price and boldly stated: “The Iranian nation will not surrender.”
Iran’s representatives at the United Nations also jumped onto X (formerly Twitter) to ridicule Trump with a scathing message: “Iran does NOT negotiate under duress… No Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House. The only thing more despicable than his lies is his cowardly threat to ‘take out’ Iran’s supreme leader.”
It turns out, Trump himself addressed this very question earlier in the year and gave a pretty direct answer.
As per the Associated Press, the U.S. already has a robust national security strategy lined up, ready to be triggered if Tehran tries something of that nature.
The man allegedly involved was 51-year-old Farhad Shakeri—an Afghan-born U.S. resident with a criminal past. Reports claim he was acting under the direction of Iran’s powerful paramilitary unit, the Revolutionary Guard, and was assigned to assassinate Trump “within seven days.”
However, the plot reportedly stalled when Shakeri admitted he couldn’t carry out the mission within that short timeframe. He even suggested pushing it off until after the upcoming election.
But now that Trump has made it absolutely clear what would follow if Iran made such a move, he seems more than comfortable publicly issuing threats aimed at Iran’s leadership.
On Truth Social, he wrote: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding.”
Meanwhile, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth confirmed to senators that the military is fully prepared and ready to respond if Trump gives the green light.
