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The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reported that Israel provided the United States with intelligence indicating that Iran had planned to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
The newspaper noted that "Trump implicitly hinted at threats to his life during the NATO summit in Ankara this week, when he said that the Iranians want to overthrow the leader of the United States and that he is at the top of the Iranian assassination list, believing that he was somewhat lucky, but perhaps this will not last long."
The newspaper noted that "Tehran has always publicly vowed to take revenge on Trump for assassinating General Qassem Soleimani, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in 2020."
She added that "during the funeral of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this week, attendees chanted the name of the US president and held up a banner that read 'We will kill Trump'."
The following day, Trump left the NATO summit in Ankara on an old presidential plane, Air Force One, instead of the plane that Qatar had gifted him, which he had used to reach the summit. The New York Times reported that "the US president made this decision on the advice of the Secret Service" as a precaution against what might happen.
A US official explained that "President Donald Trump's decision to leave Türkiye on the old presidential plane was driven by security concerns related to the escalating conflict with Iran."
Last March, Trump claimed that Iranian authorities had tried to assassinate him twice, linking the alleged assassination attempts to the decision by the United States and Israel to strike Iran and assassinate Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Tehran denied the claims of planning assassinations against American officials.
