“I was directly threatened and I am grateful to the law enforcement representatives that we met with,” Trump said during a campaign rally in North Carolina. “I think we need to threaten them, and it is best through the office of the president.”
“If I were the president, I would tell the threatened country, in this case Iran, that if they do anything to harm former presidents or presidential candidates, we will destroy the country itself,” he added.
His campaign team indicated that it had “received intelligence information about assassination threats against the Republican candidate coming from Iran,” while US intelligence held a meeting in this regard with the Trump campaign, without providing further details.
Iran has previously denounced similar accusations as “malicious.”
The FBI and the US National Security Agency previously accused Iran of targeting US President Joe Biden’s campaign in late June and early July.
It is noteworthy that the US State Department warned Iran, last August, of the consequences of any interference in the presidential elections following the Harris campaign’s announcement that it had been targeted by foreign hackers. This was days after the Trump campaign claimed that it had been hacked by Iran.
The Trump campaign had accused Tehran at the time of being behind a hacking operation that targeted it and distributing documents to media outlets related to research conducted to verify the background of Republican vice presidential candidate Jay D. Vance.
Tehran denied any interference in the US elections.
Source: RT
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2024-09-26 14:29:36
