{"id":292400,"date":"2026-07-10T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:02:12","slug":"trump-tells-the-post-hes-left-instructions-should-iran-succeed-in-assassinating-its-no-1-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292400\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells The Post he’s ‘left instructions’ should Iran succeed in assassinating its ‘No. 1’ target"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Friday told The Post he has \u201cleft instructions\u201d should Iran\u00a0succeed in their plots to assassinate him<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and there\u2019ll be hell to pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on their list for a long time. That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 The only thing is, I\u2019ve left instructions \u2014 if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they\u2019ve never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about recent reports that Israel this week flagged intel of a plot to take out the US president, Trump indicated\u00a0there was no fresh plan from Iran<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but said Tehran has wanted him dead for years.<\/p>\n

Mourners carry a banner against US President Donald\u00a0Trump as they gather on the day of the burial of Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Iranians gather at late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s funeral. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been No. 1 [on Iran\u2019s kill list] for a long time, and it\u2019s the way life is, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you\u2019ll miss me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Iran has openly sought the president\u2019s assassination since 2020, when Trump directed the attack that killed Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani.<\/p>\n

There have also been multiple foiled assassination plots against Trump since an assassin\u2019s bullet grazed his ear at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.<\/p>\n

Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednsday. Filip Singer\/Pool EPA via AP<\/p>\n

US-Iran tensions\u00a0have been supercharged in public<\/a>\u00a0this week. During the funeral for the killed supreme leader, Iranian demonstrators unfurled giant banners calling for Trump\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

Trump called off the US-Iran cease-fire and their nascent memorandum of understanding after Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In response, the president removed the US waiver on Iranian oil sanctions and launched nearly 200 strikes across Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A woman holds an anti-Trump signs as mourners gather for Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The president then swapped planes on his route home from the NATO Summit in Ankara on Wednesday, with the White House later acknowledging it was a security tactic to ensure Trump\u2019s safety after telling reporters that Iran wanted him dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the President has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal\u2014 including distraction and misdirection\u2014 to address those threats,\u201d White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

A child poses for a picture in front of a \u2018We kill Trump!\u2019 sign in Iran. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

By Friday, Trump said on Truth Social that the US had agreed to continue \u201ctalks\u201d with Iran \u2014 at Tehran\u2019s request \u2014 to pursue a final peace deal, but spelled out to them \u201cin no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump on Friday told The Post he has \u201cleft instructions\u201d should Iran\u00a0succeed in their plots to assassinate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,14670,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-292400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}