28.09.2024, 00:57
Zitat:Trump warned by US intelligence of Iran assassination threats - campaignhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0z2394ey2o
George Wright
BBC News
In the days after, US media reported that officials had received intelligence of an alleged Iranian plot against the former president. Iranian officials at the time rebuffed the allegations as "malicious", the BBC'S US partner CBS news reported.
"If they do 'assassinate President Trump,' which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth - If that does not happen, American Leaders will be considered 'gutless' cowards!" Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at the time.
Then on 15 September, a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle poking through a fence at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The agent opened fire as Mr Trump was playing a round of golf.
US prosecutors have charged Ryan Wesley Routh, a man arrested near the golf course, with the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate.
There has been no suggestion Iran was involved in either case.
Last month, the Trump campaign said some of its internal communications had been hacked and suggested it was targeted by Iranian operatives.
In 2022, a member of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps was charged by the US with plotting to kill Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton. The US justice department said Shahram Poursafi attempted to pay individuals in the US $300,000 (£224,000) to carry out the murder, in revenge for the US strike that killed the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
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