President Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed that he’s left instructions to have Iran “obliterated” if they follow through on threats to assassinate him.
The chilling warning came in response to a question posed by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, who recalled that Iran and their proxies threatened “to retaliate against you and your team by killing you guys for taking out Soleimani.”
Trump ordered an airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani — a terrorist who served as head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force — in 2020.
The Justice Department in November confirmed they had charged an Iranian agent and two U.S. citizens in a plot to kill Trump at the direction of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
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Trump responded to Doocy’s question by indicating an attempt on his life would cause problems for Iran. Major problems.
“Well, they haven’t done that (attempt to assassinate him). And that would be a terrible thing for them to do, not because of me,” he replied. “If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end.”
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The threat does not seem to be a hollow one either. The president claims he has very specific instructions laid out to turn the rogue nation into glass if they kill the leader of the free world.
“I’ve left instructions,” Trump said. “If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left. And they shouldn’t be able to do it.”
The comments came as the president signed an executive order restoring a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, something he indicated he was “unhappy” to do because it was really tough on Iran but necessary since he believes they are “close” to building a nuclear weapon.
“Hopefully, we’re not going to have to use it very much,” he told reporters.
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President Trump’s threat to obliterate Iran if they dare carry out threats on his life is reminiscent of a similar warning he issued to Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.
Baradar, now Afghanistan’s acting first deputy prime minister, was involved in negotiations for the United States withdrawal with Trump during his first term. And he received a hell of a threat from the then-president, reminding him not to harm a single American.
“Under my conversations with Abdul, who’s the leader of the Taliban, for 18 months, we didn’t lose one soldier,” Trump bragged in an interview with Sean Hannity, adding that he told Baradar he’d “obliterate” him if he failed to follow orders in their negotiations to withdraw.
To drive home the point, Trump sent him a lovely picture.
“I sent him a picture of his house,” he revealed. “He said, ‘But why, but why do you send me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You have to figure that one out.’”
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Biden, of course, came along and took over withdrawal plans, resulting in a suicide bombing that tragically killed 13 service members.
The former president did respond to the assassination threat against Trump by instructing his National Security Council to advise Iran that any attempt on Trump’s life would be viewed as an act of war.
But that wasn’t strong enough. He should have said they’d be “obliterated,” Trump believes.
“Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don’t know why. Lack of intelligence, perhaps,” he mused. “But he never said it.”
“If that happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it.”
