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Iran has a plan to assassinate Donald Trump. Israel has warned the United States and shared intelligence with American 007s about a new plot. And if there is a certain skepticism among the US services, the American president seems to believe it: “If it were to happen I have left instructions: bomb them with a power never seen before”, he threatened, stating that he has been in Tehran’s sights for years.
The truce at risk and Qatar’s mediators
The Israeli warning falls on the fragile truce between Tehran and Washington, which have been engaged for days in a tug-of-war made up of cross-attacks and which is putting the memorandum of understanding signed between the two countries to the test. After days of high tension, the raids on the Gulf and near the Strait of Hormuz slowed down and Qatari mediators, in coordination with the United States, flew to Tehran to try to save the agreement reached, avoid a resumption of hostilities and pave the way for negotiations between the parties.
Iran «asked us to continue the talks. We agreed to do it, but the United States has made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that the ceasefire is over”, Trump thundered on the Truth social network, effectively leaving himself free for further military actions against Tehran. According to rumors, a full resumption of American raids against Iran appears unlikely because it is not in the president’s interest given the approach of the mid-term elections. But Tehran labels news of a possible new round of talks next week as “false”.
Hormuz, the pressure from Israel and the doubts of the US 007s
Thus the commander-in-chief’s frustration mounts as the days pass, accentuated by the Iranian show of force in Hormuz with missiles launched against three ships last Sunday. And Israel’s alarm about the new Iranian plan to kill Trump, reported by Wall Street Journalonly further increases this nervousness, even if not all American 007s are convinced of the validity of the information received. The fear is in fact that Israel, contrary to the memorandum of understanding signed between the USA and Iran, wants to put pressure on and influence Trump’s decisions, in order to push the United States to resume the attacks.
Broken relations with Netanyahu
Relations between the two iron allies have deteriorated in recent weeks following Israeli opposition to the agreement with Tehran, which revealed a divergence of objectives with Washington after the campaign against Iran was launched in full harmony. Tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are believed to be behind the White House’s decision not to involve Israel in the raids of recent days, fearing that its participation could bring the conflict out of control.
«In Tehran’s sights for years» and the Air Force One case
«I have been Tehran’s number one target» for years», repeats the commander-in-chief: «I have been number one on the Iranian list of people to be eliminated for a long time», he told the New York Post. At least since 2020, when Tehran put him in the crosshairs for the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the powerful head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Since then the president has escaped various attacks, from Butler during the 2024 election campaign to the one at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington.
And the warning launched by Israel could be behind the decision to force Trump to fly from Ankara, where he was for the NATO summit, on board the old Air Force One equipped with all the defensive countermeasures for missiles that the new presidential plane, the one given to the president by Qatar, does not have. Lacking the necessary security, Trump was made to travel on the old aircraft to the United Kingdom, where he then changed planes and boarded the new one to return to the United States.