Former US President Donald Trump has declared that if he were in office and a presidential candidate received threats from Tehran, he would respond by obliterating Iran and its cities “to smithereens”.
“But if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country – in this case, Iran – that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We are going to blow it to smithereens,” Trump stated during a rally in North Carolina. “And there would be no more threats,” he added emphatically.
The Republican presidential candidate previously claimed to have received threats against his life from Iran. “Big threats on my life by Iran. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again,” he posted on his Truth Social platform, asserting that the entire US military is watching and waiting.
Trump was briefed on Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence about what officials described as real and specific threats from Iran aimed at assassinating him to destabilise the US, according to his campaign’s statement late Tuesday.
