After being\u00a0sworn in as the 47th President<\/a>\u00a0of the United States on January 20, the 78-year-old has already caused a stir\u2014ordering a halt to federal aid<\/a>, signing a mandating process to build a missile defense shield around the country, pulling out of the Paris\u00a0climate agreement<\/a>, amongst other things.<\/p>\n On Tuesday (February 4),\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0made his latest revelation, stating there is already a plan in place to ‘obliterate’\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0if it elects to assassinate him.<\/p>\n Previously, the Justice Department\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0it had thwarted an Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump in November 2024.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump says Iran would be ‘obliterated’ if it attempted to assassinate him (Fox News)<\/cite><\/div>\n The Associated Press\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that investigators were told of the alleged plan to kill the\u00a0businessman<\/a>\u00a0by 51-year-old Farhad Shakeri, who,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0Sky News, is still at large in Iran.<\/p>\n A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in\u00a0Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0claimed that he was instructed to set aside previous plans and carry out the assassination within seven days by a contact in Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n Shakeri reportedly told the FBI that he could not put together a plan within the seven-day timeframe, as per the complaint, with the plan allegedly being paused until the election’s conclusion.<\/p>\n Esmail Baghaei, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, denied the alleged plot, calling it ‘totally unfounded’. He went on to say that previous accusations which turned out to be false had been made in the past, and such claims risked ‘further complicating the issues between the US and Iran’ (via<\/a>\u00a0the BBC).<\/p>\n Now, Trump has revealed what he\u2019s instructed his advisors to do in the off-chance that he is killed by Iranian assassins.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, the father-of-five restored his \u2018maximum pressure\u2019 campaign on Iran by signing a presidential memorandum as he claimed Tehran was ‘too close’ to having a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n While writing the memo, Trump stated: “With me, it’s very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”<\/p>\n He added he was open to speaking to and reaching an agreement with Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, ‘so that it doesn’t end up in a very catastrophic situation’,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0Iran International.<\/p>\n In a following exchange with reporters, he also said that if Iran assassinated him, it \u2018would be obliterated\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cThat would be a terrible thing for them to do, not because of me. If they did that they would be obliterated. That would be the end.” he said. \u201cI\u2019ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won\u2019t be anything left, and they shouldn\u2019t be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also criticised former President Joe Biden while speaking to reporters (Getty Images\/Chip Somodevilla)<\/cite><\/div>\n Trump went on to criticise his predecessor, 46th president of the United States\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>, claiming he \u2018should have said\u2019 what he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he never did. I don\u2019t know why. Lack of intelligence perhaps?,\u201d he alleged. \u201cIf that happens to a leader or close to a reader frankly if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of the state that did it.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump clarified that his comments included Iran, before saying that although the memo he\u2019d signed was \u2018very powerful\u2019, he hoped that he didn\u2019t have to use it.<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&quality=70&width=3840&fit=contain&gravity=auto&url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/bltb020d6bf72114789\/67a346b821a36f6791cec53d\/donald-trump-assassination-iran.jpg\")
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