Donald Trump warns that he would ’obliterate’ Iran even from beyond the grave
The US President signed an order in the Oval Office on Tuesday for a ’maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran - and sent a chilling warning to the Middle Eastern country.
President Donald Trump has sent a chilling warning to Iran, warning he’ll obliterate them if they try to assassinate him.
The 78-year-old signed an order in the Oval Office today that referred to a "maximum pressure" campaign against the Middle Eastern nation in a bid to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. After admitting he was "torn" when signing the order, he was questioned why, since Iranian leaders had threatened to assassinate Trump and his allies following the American drone strike which killed Quds force leader Qasem Soleimani.
He responded: "If they did that, they would be obliterated. I have left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left." He then slammed President Joe Biden for failing to issue the same stern warning. "And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don’t know why. Lack of intelligence perhaps? But he never said it", he added.
Trump said a top priority for the US is to make sure Iran does not become a nuclear power. He said: "They cannot have a nuclear weapon. So I’m signing this and I’m unhappy to do it, but I really have not so much choice - because we have to be strong and firm and I hope that it’s not going to be used in any great measure at all."
"It’d be great if we could have a Middle East and maybe a world at total peace", he added. Trump and other US officials have been under Iranian assassination threats since he pulled the US out of the Iranian nuclear deal - before giving the greenlight for Soleimani’s assassination at Baghdad airport in Janauary 2020.
In November last year, it was reported that the FBI thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. The US Justice Department announced the murder-for-hire plan to kill the 78-year-old, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official to carry out the killing. Investigators learned of the plot while interviewing Farhad Shakeri, a 51-year-old Afghan national identified by officials as an Iranian government asset who was deported from the US after being imprisoned on robbery charges.
He told investigators that a contact in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him in September to put together a plan within seven days to surveil and ultimately kill Trump, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan. Two other men who the authorities say were recruited to participate in other assassinations, including a prominent Iranian American journalist, were also arrested in November.
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