President Donald Trump issued a chilling warning to Iran in case the Middle Eastern nation tried to assassinate him.
Trump signed an order in the Oval Office Tuesday that detailed a 'maximum pressure' campaign, as he worked to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
The president said he was 'torn' when signing the order.
'If they did that, they would be obliterated,' Trump said. 'I have left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won't be anything left.'
When asked to clarify his comments, the president made the same threat.
'That would be called total obliteration,' Trump said. 'I can't imagine they would do that,' he also commented.
Trump tore into President Joe Biden for not giving the same stern warning during the Democrat's four years in office.
'And Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don't know why. Lack of intelligence perhaps? But he never said it,' Trump complained.
President Donald Trump issued a chilling warning to Iran in case they tried to assassinate him. 'If they did that, they would be obliterated,' Trump said from the Oval Office Tuesday
Trump had pulled the U.S. out of the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal and then greenlit the assassination of Soleimani in January 2020, when the Iranian military officer was at the Baghdad airport.
Since then, Trump and a number of U.S. officials working for him have been under Iranian assassination threat.
Biden, in the weeks ahead of the 2024 election, had National Security Council officials make it clear to Iran that any attempt on Trump's life would be considered an act of war.
Trump used more graphic language, saying that if he were president he'd tell Iran it would be 'blown to smithereens' if U.S. officials were harmed.
'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,' the Republican nominee said.
The president survived an assassination attempt in July at a Pennsylvania rally and after an attempted assassination at his West Palm Beach golf club in September, the wannabe assassin was arrested.
Two years before, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, had circulated an animated video of a drone firing on Trump at his golf course.
Trump said Tuesday that the U.S.'s chief aim continues to be to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei photographed last year. Iran has threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump and other top U.S. leaders over the January 2020 killing of Quds force leader Qasem Soleimani
'They cannot have a nuclear weapon,' Trump said in the Oval Office. 'I think they're close, they're close. I think they're too close.'
He said the order he was signing was 'very tough' on Iran but he'd rather work out a deal.
'So I'm signing this and I'm unhappy to do it but I really have not so much choice because we have to be strong and firm and I hope that it's not going to be used in any great measure at all,' Trump said. 'It'd be great if we could have a Middle East and maybe a world at total peace.'
Trump answered 'I would' when asked if he would meet with Iranian leaders.
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'If they did that, they would be obliterated,' Trump responded. 'I have left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated, there won't be anything left.' When asked to clarify his comments, the president made the same threat. 'That would be called total obliteration,' Trump said. 'I can't imagine they would do that,' he also commented.
Israel hid explosives inside Iranian nuclear equipment in a plot similar to the deadly pager bomb attack that devastated Hezbollah, Javad Zarif, Iran 's former foreign minister and chief negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal, revealed.
This revelation comes against the backdrop of a series of sabotage attempts on Iran's nuclear facilities over recent years, including high-profile attacks and the assassination of prominent nuclear scientists.
Mr Zarif admitted Israel's infiltration had succeeded.
The allegations come as Israel's covert campaign against Iranian-linked groups continues to escalate. Last year, Mossad, Israel's spy agency, had hired Iranian agents to plant bombs at a guesthouse near Tehran to assassinate former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Additionally, a series of sabotage attacks on Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group backed by Tehran, dealt significant blows to Iran's regional allies.
Among these attacks, thousands of handheld pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants exploded simultaneously last September, killing at least 42 people. Hazbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said more than 4,000 devices were detonated. Nasrallah told his followers at the time. 'We have received a very hard hit".
This was followed by an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, marking a major setback for the Iran-backed group.
Iran announced it has started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges
Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool to instill fear throughout society. More than 1000 were executed in 2024.
Execution ceremony in Nowshahr, Iran
The photograph of smiling Majid Kavousifar, 28, captures the man's final moments before execution
Majid and his nephew Hossein were hanged from ropes attached to five-metre-long cranes
Two Iranian women. Women in Iran face the death penalty if they break morality laws
An unveiled woman standing atop a car. Women can be sentenced to death for sending videos of themselves unveiled to media outside of the Islamic Republic
An unnamed Iranian woman sustained horrific injuries after she was flogged more than 70 times by guards for refusing to wear a hijab.
Muslim Council of Britain secretary general candidate Dr Muhammad Adrees praised the regime in Iran
Fellow candidate Dr Mohammed Wajid Akhter expressed views which appear ominous for the integration of Muslims into Britain
