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Report: Iran knew Trump’s exact location in Ankara, US had intel on man with shoulder-fired missile
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US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 7, 2026. (Doğukan Keskinkılıç / Pool Photo via AP)
The New York Times reports that the Iranians knew US President Donald Trump’s exact location when he stayed in Ankara last month for the NATO summit, including the specific floor of his hotel building, according to information obtained by US intelligence at the time.
US intelligence also had information about plans to fire a surface-to-air missile at Air Force One, and had received a report of a person with a shoulder-fired missile in the area of the summit, the paper says.
The report says the credibility of the threat led to the decision to secretly spirit Trump away from the Turkish capital in a military plane while using Air Force One as a decoy.
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