Trump gives orders to ‘obliterate’ Iran if regime assassinates him after plot to kill Don on Oct 7 anniversary foiled
Read about the thwarted plot against Trump below
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has given his team strict instructions to completely obliterate Iran if they ever assassinate him.
The Republican, who has already survived several attempts on his life, decisively told reporters of the plan as he signed an executive order calling for his government to impose serious pressure on Tehran.
Trump, 78, responded to a question over what protocols would instantly be triggered should he be killed by an Iranian plot by saying there is already a plan set.
He said: “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”
Federal authorities have been tracking Iranian threats against Trump and other US administration officials for years.
It was revealed in November, that an Iranian agent had been charged with plotting to kill Trump in an assassination that would have shaken the world.
US prosecutors say the rogue state told ex-con Farhad Shakeri — said to be hiding in Tehran — to devise a seven-day plan to spy on and murder him.
Afghan national Shakeri came to the US as a child and served 14 years for a robbery before he was deported in 2008.
The US government said Shakeri is believed to be in Tehran, though he has spoken five times to the FBI over the phone.
In a complaint filed in New York – days after Trump beat Democrat Kamala Harris — prosecutors said an official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard told Shakeri to devise a plan to eliminate the President elect.
They claim the planned hit was an attempt to take vengeance for a US drone strike ordered by Trump that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, then said to be the world’s No1 terrorist, in 2020.
Soleimani led the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.
Prosecutors said Shakeri was originally told to carry out killings against Iranian targets in the US, before focusing on Trump alone.
He claims on October 7 — the anniversary of the terror attack in Israel by Iran-backed Hamas — he was told to focus just on Trump.
He was asked to come up with a plan to kill him in seven days, the indictment alleges.
According to prosecutors, Mr Shakeri told law enforcement that he did not intend to propose a scheme within the seven days, so the IRGC officials paused the plan.
Shakeri said the Iranian government told him it would be easier to try to kill Trump after the US elections because they believed he would lose, prosecutors said.
Trump recently revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook, as well as his former national security adviser John Bolton.
These men have all faced threats from Iran, and they all took hardline stances against the Islamic Republic during Trump’s first administration.
Another of Trump’s alleged hitmen, who was charged with conspiracy to murder Trump and Iranian critic Masih Alinejad, was also employed to kill a New York journalist, prosecutors claim.
Carlisle ‘Pop’ Rivera, 49, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged by law enforcement with conspiracy to murder Trump and Iranian critic Masih Alinejad.
Pictures from Rivera’s Facebook account, the , show the father of two posing for the camera at work as a welder wearing a hard hat.
Prosecutors alleged Rivera became involved with the plot to kill Trump after he was already involved in the plot to kill Alinejad.
Rivera had been brought on board by Farhad Shakeri.
Rivera was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994 and met Shakeri when they were both doing time at Fishkill prison.
Prosecutors said Shakeri had already hired Rivera when his Iranian handlers decided to change tack and target Trump.
Rivera was allegedly tailing the Iranian journalist Alinejad and was waiting on a $100,000 (£80,000) payment before trying to kill her.
Rivera allegedly said: “You just gotta have patience to catch her either going in the house or coming out, or following her out somewhere and taking care of it. Don’t think about going in. In is a suicide move.”
In another note Rivera said: “This b***h is hard to catch, bro. And because she hard to catch, there ain’t gonna be no simple pull up, unless there’s the luck of the draw.”
