The Biden administration told Fox News any attempt to harm Trump would be considered an ‘act of war’ by Iran.
U.S. Department of Justice unsealed new charges detailing a thwarted murder-for-hire plot that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ordered against Donald Trump in the weeks leading up to the election, adding new pressure for the Biden administration to act.
According to a newly unsealed criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, the IRGC ordered an Iranian asset in September to focus on “surveilling” and putting together a plan to assassinate Trump before the Nov. 5 elections.
Trump was briefed by U.S intelligence officials in September about threats from Iran to assassinate him, campaign officials confirmed.
Both President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Fox News in October that they considered any Iranian threats against Trump to be a “top-tier” national security issue, and said any attempt by the IRGC to actually harm Trump would be met with kinetic military action equal to “an act of war.”
Neither the White House nor the State Department immediately responded to Fox News’s request for comment on the nature of the threat from the IRGC, or how they planned to respond.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
