Donald Trump hopes the US will "wipe" Iran off the map, "off the face of the Earth" if it is assassinated by Tehran, he said on Thursday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the "threat" ».
"If they do 'kill President Trump,' which is always a possibility, I hope America will wipe out Iran, wipe it off the face of the Earth," the former president and White House candidate said via his social media account. network, by Truth Social.
"If they don't, American leaders will be seen as cowards!" he added.
On Wednesday, in his speech to the US Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized that "as we have recently learned, they [no. Iran] are brazenly threatening to assassinate President Trump."
US authorities reportedly received information a few weeks ago that Tehran was plotting against Trump and decided to step up security measures against him.
Iran categorically denied this "vicious" accusation, as it described it.