Trump warns Iran of ‘obliteration’ if assassination attempt succeeds

Trump warns Iran of ‘obliteration’ if assassination attempt succeeds

/ The White House

By bnm Gulf and Tehran bureaus February 5, 2025

US President Donald Trump has said that he has issued instructions for Iran to be "obliterated" should Tehran succeed in assassinating him.

"If they did that, they would be obliterated," Mr Trump told gathered reporters on February 5 abc news reports. He continued "I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left."

America’s abc news on February 5 also revealed that the US Justice Department had managed to block at least one 2024 plot to kill the then Republican nominee, although it was not known if this plot was in direct retaliation for Trump’s own 2020 order to have the former leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qud Force, Qaseem Soleimani, killed. The Iranian officer was killed in a drone attack carried out by US forces while on his way to a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister.

In the event of any assassination of a US president, the serving vice president takes over as happened during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981 when then Vice President George H W. Bush assumed command until Reagan recovered, and the iconic killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas, when Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in two hours after Kennedy’s death.

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