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Washington, July 10 (EFE).-
President Donald Trump said Friday that he has instructed the Pentagon to launch massive strikes against Iran if he is assassinated, while also declaring the ceasefire reached with Tehran last month to be effectively over despite agreeing to continue negotiations at Iran’s request.
“I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post.
“The only thing is, I’ve left instructions – if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.”
Trump was responding to media reports suggesting that Israel had warned the US that Iran could be developing a new plot to assassinate him.
However, he said he had not been informed of any recent assassination plan.
“No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,” he said. “I’ve been No. 1 (on Iran’s kill list) for a long time, and it’s the way life is, you know.”
Asked about the possibility of an assassination attempt, Trump replied: “I hope you will miss me.”
Truce over, talks on
In a separate post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said Iran had requested that negotiations continue and that Washington had agreed, while making clear that the ceasefire was no longer in force.
“Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!” he wrote.
The US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on June 17 aimed at ending the conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial navigation and launching negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.
However, renewed exchanges of attacks over the past two days have placed the agreement in jeopardy. According to Iranian authorities, the latest strikes have killed at least 14 people in Iran.
Tehran has argued that recent US military actions have “rendered key and fundamental parts” of the memorandum void, while Trump has gone further by declaring the ceasefire effectively ended.
His remarks come amid renewed tensions between Washington and Tehran following the collapse of the truce and after Trump previously linked threats against him to the 2020 US drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani during his first term in office.
Meanwhile, Iran on Thursday buried its assassinated supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a bombing on the opening day of the military offensive launched by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic on Feb. 28.
Khamenei’s son and designated successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, once again did not appear in public. He has not been seen since Feb. 28, or since Mar. 8, when he was named supreme leader, fuelling continued speculation about his health. EFE
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