Biden White House Looks to Protect Trump Officials from Iranian Assassination Attempts
This is more than a little unnerving.
Donald Trump certainly has his enemies, as any world leader worth their salt would, but the latest threats to members of his former administration are serious enough to warrant a response from the Biden White House.
The concern stems from one of Trump’s most profound actions as President: Assassinating one of Iran’s most well-beloved leaders, who, at the time, was plotting an inevitable attack against Americans in the region.
Iran’s imposition of “sanctions” on dozens of Americans amounts to an assassination threat against members of former President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a senior U.S. official who threatened “severe consequences” for any harm done to them.
“Make no mistake: the United States of America will protect and defend its citizens,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday. “This includes those serving the United States now and those who formerly served.”
Just how serious are these threats?
Iranian officials have made explicit their interest in killing one of the people involved in the U.S. strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The regime observed the second anniversary of his death last week, which occasioned a flurry of truculent rhetoric and the unveiling of economic sanctions by Iran that U.S. observers take as a proxy for a threat of violence.
“Wherever it is needed, we will provide for the basis of revenge against the Americans from within their houses and by people by their side without us being present,” IRGC Quds Force Commander Sardar Esmail Qaani said in remarks published by Iranian media. “If wise people in America are found who deal with those who committed the atrocity of assassinating Commander Soleimani, this action will be much less burdensome for America than if the offspring of the Resistance Front, who know no bounds, to themselves go and take this revenge.”
Iran and the US have been adversaries for decades, reaching back into the 1950’s.
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Cross-posted with Flag and Cross
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