Has Iran actually tried to kill Trump? Here's what we know

Source: The Independent

Has Iran actually tried to kill Trump? Here’s what we know

Israel has pointed to allegations of assassination threats as the U.S. weighs joining military campaign

Alex Woodward
in New York
Friday 20 June 2025 15:22 BST

Days after it was reported that Donald Trump rejected Israel’s plot to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the president publicly announced that the United States knows his location and is holding off killing him “for now.”

Israeli officials, meanwhile, have openly demanded his death. This week, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, turning to Fox News over the weekend to make the case for the United States to join a war with Iran, said Khamenei sees the president as “public enemy number one.”

Israel has sought to justify intervention using allegations of Trump’s assassination threats as leverage, while the United States has faced years of blowback in the wake of Middle East wars and the 2020 killing of a top Iranian general.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-trump-assassination-khamenei-what-we-know-b2773941.html

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