{"id":372,"date":"2024-07-17T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=372"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:46:47","slug":"iran-denies-involvement-in-plot-to-assassinate-former-us-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/iran-denies-involvement-in-plot-to-assassinate-former-us-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Denies Involvement In Plot To Assassinate Former US President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran on Wednesday described as \u201cmalicious and unsubstantiated\u201d the accusations by the US media implicating it in an attempt to kill former US president Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN had reported on Tuesday that US authorities received intelligence from a \u201chuman source\u201d weeks ago on a plot allegedly being carried out by the Iranian government to assassinate the former president. The information prompted authorities to boost security around Trump, according to the report which was also carried by other news outlets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CNN stated in the report that the alleged plot was not linked to Saturday&#8217;s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, in which the former president was wounded in the ear and a rally attendant killed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US National Security Council raised a security alert as it had been \u201ctracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years\u201d after vowing to take vengeance for the 2020 killing of Revolutionary Guards commander, Qasem Soleimani in a US drone attack in neighbouring Iraq.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanani said \u201cIran strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He however expressed Iran&#8217;s strong desire \u201cto prosecute Trump over his direct role in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soleimani was in charge of the foreign operations arm of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards, which oversees Iranian military operations across the Middle East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As president, Trump had approved his killing which was executed in a drone strike just outside Baghdad airport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Arab News\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Wednesday described as \u201cmalicious and unsubstantiated\u201d the accusations by the US media implicating it in an attempt to kill former US president Donald Trump.\u00a0 CNN had reported on Tuesday that US authorities received intelligence from a \u201chuman source\u201d weeks ago on a plot allegedly being carried out by the Iranian government to assassinate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}