The spokesman for the National Security Council stressed: The white house Sean Savitt stressed that the United States “considers the matter a matter of national and national security of the highest priority, and we condemn it Iran “Seriously because of these brazen threats.”
Savit added: “If Iran attacks any of our citizens, including those who continue to serve the United States or those who have served previously, it will face severe consequences.”
The American Fox News network had previously said that the president Joe Biden He asked the National Security Council to inform Iran of any assassination attempt Donald Trump It will be considered an act of war.
In late September, Trump called for threatening to “destroy” Iran if it harmed a candidate For the American electionsAfter intelligence informed him of the threats to him behind it Tehran.
Trump said at the time during an election rally in North Carolina: “If I were the president, I would tell the threatened country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we will destroy your largest cities and the country itself.”
The former president, who was subjected to two recent assassination attempts, confirmed that his life is directly threatened by Iran, in the context of intensified hostilities between Israel and Israel. And Hezbollah Lebanese.
His campaign team indicated that it received information from American intelligence About “concrete” assassination threats against the Republican candidate, issued by Iran.
US intelligence confirmed to Agence France-Presse that a meeting in this regard had been held with the Trump campaign, without providing further details.
Iran denounced similar accusations over the summer, describing them as “malicious.”
In mid-August, the United States accused Iran of several hacking attempts on the Trump campaigns And Kamala Harris The presidential candidate’s team revealed one of them on August 10.
According to US authorities, Iranian hackers sent documents “stolen” from the Republican billionaire’s team to the Biden campaign team, which withdrew from the race to the White House.
According to Trump’s spokesman, these “threats” illustrate the fact that “the terrorist regime in Iran loves the weakness of Kamala Harris and fears the strength and determination of President Trump.”
Trump has been the target of two assassination attempts in recent months, and he was shot and injured in his right ear during an election rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July.
Then on September 15, a man was arrested after Secret Service agents spotted him with a weapon near a playground Golf Trump was in Florida and was charged with attempted murder.
