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Dulcinea

(7,603 posts) Sun Oct 13, 2024, 06:59 AM Oct 13

Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them.

(Politico) U.S. officials are coming to a troubling realization about Iran’s repeated threats to kill Donald Trump and some of his former top generals and national security strategists: Tehran isn’t bluffing — and it isn’t giving up anytime soon.

Iran has been openly threatening Trump and those who oversaw his national security strategy since January 2020, when Trump ordered a drone strike killing Qassem Soleimani, then Iran’s most powerful military general. Tehran has put out videos depicting the future deaths of Trump and others who helped orchestrate the Soleimani attack, pushed for their arrest and extradition and issued menacing statements promising revenge.

U.S. intelligence community officials briefed the Trump campaign last month about assassination threats against the former president from Iran, with the Trump campaign saying they were warned the threat has “heightened in the past few months.” The briefing followed a pair of assassination efforts on Trump this summer. No evidence has been presented to link those to Tehran.

But Iran’s efforts to kill Trump and former senior officials it has blamed for the Soleimani strike are even more extensive and aggressive than previously reported, according to a dozen officials familiar with the Iranian assassination threat.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-hit-list-former-trump-202119525.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20241013-0&bt_user_id=J%2BGradRJzu59NHWEhCOPtCrMwmtxpVqaJCLgwR0Pbo5Ngq9axg5whKnkN1iVhWaM&bt_ts=1728818425461

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Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them. (Original Post) Dulcinea Oct 13 OP

Project2025 is a hit list of Americans the rightwing wants to target... Think. Again. Oct 13 #1

Enemies from within, enemies from without... elias7 Oct 13 #3

Yep, there's a good reason why the Oath of Office includes the words... Think. Again. Oct 13 #5

My wife thinks JD Vance is super dangerous, like Trump with a brain elias7 Oct 13 #6

Iran had better realize that any assassination of Trump or former Trump aides MarineCombatEngineer Oct 13 #2

I find this seemingly recent level of threats from Iran strange. Lonestarblue Oct 13 #4

Think. Again.

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1. Project2025 is a hit list of Americans the rightwing wants to target...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 07:13 AM

Oct 13

....are any U.S. agencies scrambling to protect them ?

elias7

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3. Enemies from within, enemies from without...

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:24 AM

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We should ultimately be clear as to who the real enemies to America and Democracy are, as if 9/11 didn’t already teach us the lesson.

Think. Again.

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5. Yep, there's a good reason why the Oath of Office includes the words...

Reply to elias7 (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:29 AM

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"....against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

elias7

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6. My wife thinks JD Vance is super dangerous, like Trump with a brain

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 10:37 AM

Oct 13

She is girding me for the possibility of a civil war whether R’s win or lose…

MarineCombatEngineer

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2. Iran had better realize that any assassination of Trump or former Trump aides

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2024, 07:31 AM

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will be met with a devastating military response that will leave Iran's infrastructure and military in ruins.
What's left of their Navy and Air Force will cease to exist .

Lonestarblue

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4. I find this seemingly recent level of threats from Iran strange.

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Sun Oct 13, 2024, 08:29 AM

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Trump ordered the killing of Soleimani in January 2020. Yet there was no real response by Iran until more than four years later. Why would Iran not want Trump as president? They know he is a bumbling idiot who actually gave them the okay to develop nuclear weapons by pulling put of the agreement Obama made. He doesn’t care bout their human rights violations. He would support Israel, but so do Biden and Harris. Trump now has more protection, but he has been an open target on his golf courses for the past four years. They could have assassinated him at any time. Is it possible that another player is in effect digitally impersonating Iran because the two attacks not by Iran lifted his poll numbers and his donations?

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