President Trump threatens 1,000-fold retaliation if Iran assassinates US Ambassador
President Trump has just threatened Iran that if Iran assassinates a US Ambassador, the US will retaliate “1,000 times”.
US President Trump took to Twitter to issue the above warning.
US officials have recently received information about a so-called Iranian plot to assassinate the US Ambassador in retaliation for the US assassination of Iranian General Soleimani in early 2020.
Mr Trump cited recent reports that Tehran was considering a plot to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks. US officials have been aware of the threats since the spring, but US intelligence says they have become more apparent in recent weeks.
An intelligence source told Fox News that the intelligence communityAmericatook this assassination plot very seriously and believed that the Iranian government had the ability to carry it out.
Ms. Lana Marks is just one of a number of US officials that US intelligence agencies believe are beingIranconsidered a target of retaliation for the killing of General Soleimani.
The Pentagon said Soleimani “actively developed plans to attack US diplomats in Iraq and around the world.”
Meanwhile, at the end of 2019, after approving the attack to kill IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Mr. Trump said that the US will hunt down any enemy anywhere in the world./.
