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Donald Trump He threatened to blow Iran to pieces if it attacked a presidential candidate. United States electionsafter the intelligence services warned of threats from Tehran against the Republican’s life.
The former president, target of two assassination attemptson July 13 and September 15, said on Tuesday that his life is directly threatened by Iranan ally of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah.
“If I were president, I would inform the country that is threatening, in this case Iran, that if they do anything to harm this person, We would blow their cities to pieces bigger and the country itself,” the Republican candidate declared at a rally.
Trump campaign warns of threats against it
His campaign team claims that the intelligence services have informed him of “concrete” threats of murder against him, coming from Iran. Tehran denied the accusations of this type some time ago and called them “malicious.”
A commission of the Senate published a highly critical report on Wednesday on the security system around Donald Trump during the rally Pennsylvaniawhere he was shot in the ear.
But he stresses that it was the first time that counter-snipers were deployed. Secret service to protect a candidate who still had not been officially nominated for his party.
The decision to reinforce its security was taken in early July “in response to credible intelligence information about a threat“, this commission indicates.
It does not specify the nature or origin of the threat.
Media claims Iran is planning to assassinate Trump
Several American media outlets claim that the reinforcement was due to the “threat” of an Iranian plan destined to kill him.
In August, USA announced that he had foiled a plot by a Pakistani linked to Tehran to assassinate an American official in revenge for the death of the general Iranian Qasem Soleimanikilled in 2020 in an attack in Iraq ordered by Donald Trump.
The Republican spokesman believes that these “threats” illustrate the fact that “the terrorist regime of Iran loves the weakness of Kamala Harris and is terrified by the power and determination of President Trump.”
On September 15, a man was arrested after fleeing when Secret Service agents They found him armed, near the Florida golf course in which the presidential candidate played.
On Wednesday, the US attorney general, Merrick Garlanddescribed the murder attempts as “aberrant.”
“Our nation has now experienced two assassination attempts against the former president in just the last three months. That is abhorrent,” he said.
Iranian hackers have attacked Trump’s databases
In mid-August, the United States accused Iran of several hacking attempts against presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harrisincluding one revealed by the Republican candidate’s team.
The US authorities They also claimed in August that Iranian hackers sent documents “stolen” from the Republican billionaire’s entourage to Joe Biden’s campaign team.
Joe Biden was replaced by Kamala Harris as a candidate for the White House in the November 5 elections.
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