Trump campaign says US intelligence alerted of Iran murder menaces

Donald Trump has been inestablished by US intelligence on menaces from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said.

The Reuncoveran pdwellntial truthfulate was inestablished “think abouting genuine and particular menaces from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to deequilibrate and sow disorder in the United States”, the campaign said in a statement.

It did not enhuge on the claims, and it was not promptly evident if the menaces it referred to were recent or had been previously telled.

The Iranian handlement did not promptly reply to a ask for comment, but Tehran has previously denied US claims of interfering in American afuninwholes.

“Intelligence officials have identified that these persistd and set upd attacks have heightened in the past scant months,” Trump campaign communications straightforwardor Steven Cheung said in the statement.

“Law enforcement officials atraverse all agencies are laboring to determine Pdwellnt Trump is protected and the election is free from intrudence,” he inserted.

The BBC has approached the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the US for comment.

It comes after Mr Trump persistd an murder finisheavor on 13 July, when he was wounded and another person was finished in a shooting at a rpartner in Pennsylvania. No motive has been resettled and it remains under spreadigation.

In the days after, US media telled that officials had getd intelligence of an alleged Iranian plot aacquirest the establisher pdwellnt. Iranian officials at the time rebuffed the allegations as “malicious”, the BBC’S US partner CBS recents telled.

“If they do ‘assassinate Pdwellnt Trump,’ which is always a possibility, I hope that America oblacquireeds Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth – If that does not happen, American Leaders will be think abouted ‘gutless’ cowards!” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platestablish at the time.

Then on 15 September, a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle poking thraw a fence at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The agent discdisthink abouted fire as Mr Trump was joining a round of golf.

US prosecutors have accused Ryan Wesley Routh, a man arrested cforfeit the golf course, with the finisheavored murder of a pdwellntial truthfulate.

There has been no proposeion Iran was joind in either case.

Last month, the Trump campaign said some of its inner communications had been hacked and proposeed it was focincluded by Iranian operatives.