Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran Sunday of orchestrating the two failed assassination attempts on President Trump during his third presidential campaign last year.
Netanyahu characterized Trump as the greatest threat to Iran and its ambitions for acquiring a nuclear weapon — claiming that’s why the rogue regime tried to murder him, in a shocking moment during an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News.
“These people who chant, ‘Death to America,’ tried to assassinate President Trump twice,” Netanyahu said as he was making his case to the American people for launching attacks on Iran amid the Islamic republic and Israel’s deadly exchange of missiles over the weekend.
“Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your cities?” Netanyahu asked. “Of course not. So we’re defending ourselves, but we’re also defending the world.”
Baier seemed taken aback by Netanyahu’s comments and asked the prime minister to expand on the incendiary accusation.
“You just said Iran tried to assassinate President Trump twice,” the Fox News anchor said. “Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from Iran?”
“Through proxies, yes,” Netanyahu replied. “Through their intel, yes. They want to kill him.”
American security agencies have never tied the two assassination attempts to the rogue regime, but in a speech in September, Trump suggested Iran was behind them.
Iranian leadership has steadfastly denied any involvement.
Netanyahu then joked about how Trump wasn’t the only one they targeted – but stressed that he was the regime’s number one adversary.
“Look, they also tried to kill me, but I’m his junior partner. They understand that President Trump is a great threat to Iran’s plans to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them,” he said.
In November, the feds accused an unnamed agent from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard of recruiting Farhad Shakeri, 51, to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating” Trump, adding that money was not an issue.
Trump survived assassination attempts twice in the summer of 2024 while campaigning for president.
On September 15, authorities arrested Ryan Routh, who was armed with a semi-automatic rifle, at the Trump International Golf Club.
Just a month before, at a campaign event in Butler, Pa, Trump narrowly avoided death when a gunman’s bullet whizzed by his head, clipping his ear.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump told The Post last July. “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks, an engineering student who took the shot and missed, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Routh tied himself to Crooks in a bizarre four-page letter from jail in which he condemned America’s “two-party system.”
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