‘Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh,’ US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, 4 March. With his bold remark, he was referencing the assassination plots by the Iranian regime against President Trump.
The US government having intelligence about Iranian plans to kill the 45th and 47th POTUS was reported in the media as early as ahead of the 2024 election. Even President Joe Biden commented on the matter in October 2024, and warned that he would consider the assassination ‘an act of war’ by the Islamist nation.
President Trump did survive two attempts on his life in the lead-up to the 2024 election—he was famously grazed by an assassin’s bullet on the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024; and in September 2024, a gunman was apprehended at the golf course near his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, while President Trump was golfing.
Neither of these attempted killings is believed to have connections to the Ayatollah regime in Iran. However, as Reuters reports, one Iranian national was charged by the US Justice Department in connection with an assassination plot against President Trump. That plot just did not get the media attention that the two aforementioned attempts, believed to be perpetrated by lone criminals, did not come as close to fatality. Tehran has officially denied it had any such plot against the President’s life.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran was killed in a US–Israeli joint air strike on Tehran, Iran, on 28 February this year. President Trump himself has made a similar statement to the recent one by Secretary Hegseth, saying ‘I got him before he got me’ in reference to the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei, to ABC News a few days ago.
‘They [the remnants of the Iranian government] are toast, and they know it. Or at least soon enough they will know it…America is winning—decisively, devastatingly and without mercy,’ Secretary Hegseth has stated at the press conference. He also told reporters that he believes the US and Israel will have complete control over Iran’s airspace in just a few days.
‘We can sustain this fight easily for as long as we need to,’ the United States’ War Secretary added.
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