Iran’s Deadly Threat: Trump Briefed on Assassination Plots 

United States: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received information on Tuesday from the US intelligence officials on threats reported by Iran to kill him, his campaign said on Wednesday. 

“He was updated this morning by the ODNI regarding clear threats from Iran on its desire to assassinate him in order to create havoc in the United States” the campaign said in a statement. 

As reported by Reuters, according to the campaign Schumer announced that intelligence officials have found that threats from Iran have “escalated in recent months” and government officials have been trying to safeguard Trump and the elections. 

Trump claimed in a message on his Truth Social platform, that there were ‘big threats’ on his life by Iran and suggesting that the Iranian moves did not pay off ‘but they will try again’. 

Iran has dismissed previous accusations made by the U.S of meddling in American affairs. Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York did not respond to a request for comment late on Tuesday. 

An ODNI spokesperson confirmed the briefing on Tuesday but was reluctant to talk about any details. 

Last week a man from Pakistan who is accused of having connections with Iran entered a demurrage on an indictment derived out of an alleged plan to eliminate an American political figure in vengeance for the drone destruction of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. 

The defendant identified Trump as a possible target but had not thought of the plot as an assassination attempt on the former president, a source said. 

There are also separate investigations by federal authorities of an attempted assassination of Trump at his golf course in Florida in mid-September, and a shooting at a rally of the Republican presidential candidate in Pennsylvania on July 13.  

There has been no suggestion of Iranians in either of them. United States agencies said last week Iranian hackers sent emails containing stolen material from the Republican former president’s campaign to the people involved in the Democratic President Joe Biden’s then the re-election campaign who is a part of an alleged broader effort by Tehran to influence the US election. 

Biden stepped aside as a candidate in the late July and was replaced by the Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris who faces Trump in a tight race for the Nov. 5 US elections. 

In the month of August, the United States accused Iran of launching cyber operations against the campaigns of the U.S. presidential candidates. Iran denied the allegations. 

Tehran says the Washington has interfered in it’s for the decades citing events which are ranging from a 1953 coup against a prime minister to the 2020 killing of its military commander in United States drone strike.