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Ivan Pereira – ABC News Sept 25, 2024

Former President Donald Trump didn’t mince words Wednesday at a rally in North Carolina after being warned about ongoing Iranian efforts to assassinate him.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence met with Trump and his campaign on Tuesday, according to an ODNI spokesman. While the agency declined to discuss specifics, the former president’s campaign said the meeting involved “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.”

During his rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina, Trump echoed that statement and sent a stark warning to Tehran about what he would do if he were president and a leading candidate was under threat.

“If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case, Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We’re going to blow it to smithereens,” the former president said to cheers.

“There would be no more threats,” Trump continued. “But right now, we don’t have that leadership or the necessary people, the necessary leaders.”

The FBI is still investigating the assassination attempt in July during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where one person was killed, and the apparent assassination attempt that took place earlier this month at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida.

Investigators have not publicly disclosed a motive in either of the cases.

Before the Butler shooting, the Secret Service increased Trump’s security due to intelligence indicating there was an Iranian threat to assassinate the former president, sources told ABC News.

Counter snipers were assigned to the Butler rally because of the increased threats from a foreign threat prior to the event, according to a report released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Trump suggested the two assassination attempts were tied to Iran during his rally Wednesday.

“There have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve…Iran. But I don’t really know,” he said.

However, there is no indication that Iran was connected to the suspected shooter in the Butler incident, officials said.

Intelligence officials briefed senators about a range of foreign threats later Wednesday.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told reporters before going into the meeting that the country needs to take the Iranian threats seriously.

“Iran has threatened to kill — if it’s accurate and I have no reason to think it isn’t — Iran has threatened to kill a former president of the United States and a current candidate for president of the United States,” he said. “We can’t just let it lie out there and pretend that the threat is not real.”

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, said he was also concerned about threats from Iran.

“We know the Iranian regime is a regime that will resort to all kinds of tactics and we need to be on guard — just as the Russian regime has been saying in terms of undermining our support for Ukraine,” he said.

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Comment – Sept 26, 2024

The article continues without providing a shred of evidence to substantiate Trump’s claim that Iran was involved in the assassination attempts.

The Iranians have described insinuations that they were involved as “absurd”.

Nonetheless, the fact that Trump is suggesting as much doesn’t augur well should he win the election in November.

In fact with this suggestion Trump is signalling what we might expect from U.S. foreign policy under a new administration. First off we could expect the U.S. to back away from conflict with Russia through a proxy in Ukraine.

Of course this would initially be welcomed as a new development in Washington’s foreign policy. As in a new president brings with him a new foreign policy agenda.

However, don’t be surprised if a new Trump administration then decides to refocus its attention on Iran. So instead of Moscow being portrayed as the centre of the axis evil, the focus would shift to Tehran.

The problem here of course, is that in recent years Moscow and Tehran have forged strong military and economic ties. So the West would still be faced with the same alliance.

The only difference being that instead of confronting Russia through a proxy in Ukraine, the West would first take on one of Moscow’s allies in Iran. Before, presumably, moving on to the prime target, Russia itself.

So in fact there would be no change in Washington’s ultimate foreign policy goals under Trump. A new administration would only bring a subtle shift in emphasis and priority.

It’s probably no coincidence that Trump suggested Iranian involvement only hours after Putin announced a revised Russian nuclear doctrine. The message was clear, The Russian president was drawing a new red line.Thereby lowering the nuclear threshold and opening the way for Russia to launch nuclear strikes on the West should Ukraine launch longer range strikes into the Russian heartland.

Curiously, this momentous news has received virtually no mention in the mainstream Western news media.

Despite this the overall, long-term agenda remains the same. The break-up of the Russian Federation and the Western dominance of what remains is the overriding priority.

So as far as U.S. foreign policy is concerned, a new presidential administration would simply mean: meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Ed.