Donald Trump faces ‘heightened’ assassination threats from Iran, his campaign claims

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was briefed on Tuesday by U.S. intelligence officers on alleged threats from Iran to assassinate him, Trump’s marketing campaign stated.

“President Trump was briefed earlier right now by the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence concerning actual and particular threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the US,” the marketing campaign stated in a press release.

The marketing campaign stated that intelligence officers have recognized that Iranian threats have “heightened up to now few months” and U.S. authorities officers have been working to guard Trump and make sure the elections weren’t impacted.

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Iran denies involvement in assassination plots and cyber assaults

Iran has beforehand denied U.S. claims of interfering in American affairs. Iran’s everlasting mission to the United Nations in New York and the ODNI didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark late on Tuesday.

Earlier this month, a Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran pleaded not responsible to prices stemming from an alleged plot to assassinate an American politician in retaliation for the 2020 killing by the U.S. of Iranian navy commander Qassem Soleimani.

The defendant named Trump as a possible goal however had not conceived the scheme as a plan to assassinate the previous president, based on an individual aware of the matter.

Federal authorities are individually probing an obvious assassination try on Trump at his Florida golf course in mid-September and a July 13 capturing of the Republican presidential candidate at a rally in Pennsylvania. There was no indication of Iranian involvement in both of these.

U.S. authorities businesses stated final week Iranian hackers despatched emails containing stolen materials from the Republican former president’s marketing campaign to individuals concerned in Democratic President Joe Biden’s then re-election marketing campaign, a part of an alleged broader effort by Tehran to affect the U.S. election.

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Biden stepped apart as candidate in late July and was changed by Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who faces Trump in a good race for the Nov. 5 U.S. elections.

In August, the US accused Iran of launching cyber operations towards the campaigns of each U.S. presidential candidates. Iran denied the allegations.