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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
CNN: US received intel of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump
Mourners step over a US flags with pictures of US President Donald Trump while waiting for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad, Iraq, January 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
The United States received intelligence from a human source in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on the matter.
CNN reported that there was no indication that the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate Trump on Saturday was connected to the plot.
Iran has repeatedly vowed to revenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed in a drone strike ordered by Trump.
Soleimani, 62, was killed on January 3, 2020, in a US airstrike carried out by an MQ-9 Reaper drone. He was struck while traveling from Baghdad’s international airport.
