PRESIDENT Donald Trump has given his team strict instructions to completely obliterate Iran if they ever assassinate him.
The 78-year-old Republican, who has survived multiple assassination attempts, firmly informed the media about a specific strategy while enacting an executive order directing his administration to apply significant pressure on Tehran.
When asked about the immediate procedures that would be activated in case of his death due to an Iranian conspiracy, Trump mentioned that a contingency plan is already in place.
He said: “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there wont be anything left.”
Federal authorities have been tracking Iranian threats against Trump and other US administration officials for years.
It was revealed in November, 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.
According to a lawsuit filed in New York shortly after Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, prosecutors alleged that a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard instructed Shakeri to create a strategy 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.
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.
