Why Iran is so desperate to assassinate Donald Trump

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In his September 2023 address to the United Nations General Assembly, the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned that “the blood of the oppressed will not be forgotten, and the ropes of the guilty will bring them to justice.”

Three years later, media attention is focused on President Donald Trump’s use of a catering truck to secretly switch planes before leaving last month’s NATO summit in Turkey. Trump did so on U.S. Secret Service advice amid an Iranian assassination threat.

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