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President Donald Trump said connected Tuesday if Iran carries retired his assassination, advisers volition guarantee that state is "obliterated."
While signing an enforcement bid imposing maximum unit connected Tehran, the president said helium near instructions if thing were to hap to him.
"That would beryllium a unspeakable happening for them to do," Trump said. "If they did that, they would beryllium obliterated. That would beryllium the end. … There won't beryllium thing left."
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The president said erstwhile President Joe Biden "should person said that," but did not, owed to a "lack of intelligence."
The Justice Department confirmed successful November it thwarted an Iranian plot to termination Trump successful the weeks starring up to the statesmanlike election.
A transgression ailment filed successful September noted an authoritative successful Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to "focus connected surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating" Trump.
Shakeri immigrated to the United States arsenic a kid and was deported astir 17 years agone aft serving 14 years successful situation for a robbery conviction, according to the DOJ.
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He was allegedly tasked connected Oct. 7, 2024 with providing a program to termination Trump, according to authorities.
Shakeri has not yet been apprehended and is believed to beryllium surviving successful Iran, according to the DOJ.
"I'm signing this, and it's a precise almighty document, but hopefully we're not going to person to usage it," Trump said connected Tuesday.
Fox News Digital's Greg Norman contributed to this story.
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