Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence agencies about assassination threats from Iran, his campaign announced.
His campaign said in a statement that the Republican presidential candidate had been briefed on “real and specific threats of assassination by Iran intended to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.”
It did not elaborate on the claims, and it was not immediately clear whether the threats mentioned were new or previously reported.
Tehran’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but it has previously denied U.S. claims of interference in its internal affairs.
President Trump posted on the social media site X (formerly Twitter) that there is a “major threat to my life from Iran.”
“Iran has already taken action and it didn’t work, but it will try again.”
He said the attack on him was “a death wish by the attackers” and thanked Congress for approving additional funding for the Secret Service.
“Intelligence officials have confirmed that these sustained and coordinated attacks have escalated over the past several months,” Trump campaign communications director Stephen Chan said in a statement.
He added that “law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to protect President Trump and ensure there is no interference in the election.”
A spokesperson for the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirmed the content of the press conference, but did not provide further details.
This comes after Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13 but was wounded in a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania that left another person dead. A motive has not been determined and is currently under investigation.
Days later, U.S. media reported that officials had received information about an alleged Iranian plot against the former president. The BBC’s US partner CBS News reported that Iranian officials at the time rejected the claims as “malicious”.
“If they carry out an ‘assassination of President Trump,’ which is always a possibility, I would like America to annihilate Iran and wipe it off the face of the earth. If that doesn’t happen, then the American leadership They will be considered ‘heartless’ cowards!,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at the time.
Then, on September 15, Secret Service agents found a rifle crashing through a fence at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Trump was playing golf when an agent opened fire.
U.S. prosecutors have charged Ryan Wesley Routh, a man arrested near a golf course, with attempted assassination of a presidential candidate.
There is no suggestion that Iran was involved in either incident.
The Trump campaign announced last month that some of its internal communications had been hacked, suggesting it had been targeted by Iranian operatives.
In 2022, members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were indicted by the United States for plotting to kill President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.
The US Department of Justice has ordered Shahram Pursafi to pay $300,000 (£224,000) to individuals in the US for carrying out the murder in retaliation for the US military attack that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. He announced that he was trying to pay.
