Soon after President Donald Trump called off a ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, Israeli officials briefed his staff on intelligence suggesting Tehran was planning fresh assassination attempts against him.
This is not an isolated warning; U.S. law‑enforcement and intelligence agencies have long monitored Iranian designs on the president, with such threats escalating since the conflict began.
The motives date back six years to the strike outside Baghdad International Airport that eliminated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s premier commander. That drone attack pushed the two nations to the brink of war.
Although a full‑scale war was avoided, senior Iranian officials vowed retaliation, authorising plots not only against the president but also against his former secretary of state and national security adviser, even after they had departed office.
Now, the quest for vengeance in Tehran has intensified following a joint U.S.-Israeli strike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the outset of the conflict in February.
Iranians gather on Tehran streets ahead of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s funeral
At Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies this week, red flags of vengeance flew throughout the capital as protesters explicitly called on their government to “kill Trump”.
