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The United States Intelligence has warned former President Donald Trump of threats from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign team announced.
The Republican presidential candidate was briefed “regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilise and sow chaos in the United States”, the campaign said in a statement.
Trump posted on his X (formerly Twitter) handle that there are “big threats on my life by Iran.”
“Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again.”
An attack on him was a “death wish by the attacker,” he said as he thanked Congress for approving more money for the Secret Service.
“Intelligence officials have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months,” Trump campaign communications director, Steven Cheung said in the statement.
He added, “Law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference.”
Trump’s campaign did not elaborate on the claims, and it was not immediately clear if the threats it referred to were new or had been previously reported.
The Iranian government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Tehran has previously denied US claims of interfering in American affairs.
The BBC has approached the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the US for comment.
These warnings came after Trump survived an assassination attempt on 13 July, when he was wounded and another person was killed in a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania.
No motive has been determined and it remains under investigation.
Days later, 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”, CBS News reported.
“If they do ‘assassinate President Trump,’ which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, and wipes it off the face of the earth, if that does not happen, American leaders will be considered ‘gutless’ cowards!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at the time.
LEADERSHIP recalls that 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.
The US prosecutors have charged Ryan Wesley Routh, a man arrested near the golf course, with the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate.
There has however been no suggestion that Iran was involved in either case.
