The former US president called Donald Trump Late September to the threat of “destruction” Iran If you damage the filter For the American electionsAfter intelligence informed him of threats to him posed by Tehran.
Trump said at the time during an election rally in North Carolina: “If I were the president, I would tell the threatened country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we will destroy your largest cities and the country itself.”
The former president, who was subjected to two recent assassination attempts, confirmed that his life is directly threatened by Iran, in the context of intensified hostilities between… Israel And Hezbollah Lebanese.
His campaign team indicated that it had received information from US intelligence about “concrete” assassination threats against the Republican candidate, emanating from Iran.
US intelligence confirmed to Agence France-Presse that a meeting in this regard was held with the Trump campaign, without providing further details.
Iran denounced similar accusations over the summer, describing them as “malicious.”
In mid-August, the United States accused Iran of several hacking attempts on the Trump campaigns And Kamala Harris The presidential candidate’s team revealed one of them on August 10.
According to US authorities, Iranian hackers were sent to a campaign team Joe Biden Who withdrew from the race to The white housedocuments “stolen” from the Republican billionaire’s team.
Trump’s spokesman said that these “threats” illustrate the fact that “the terrorist regime in Iran loves Kamala Harris’ weakness and fears President Trump’s strength and determination.”
Trump has been the target of two assassination attempts in recent months, and he was shot and injured in his right ear during an election rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July.
Then on September 15, a man was arrested after Secret Service agents spotted him with a weapon near a playground Golf Trump was in Florida and was charged with attempted murder.
