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It was an elaborate ruse, which included the president being transported to and from aircraft inside a catering truck, in response to what American officials reportedly believed to be credible intelligence of an Iranian missile threat to Air Force One. 1 dead — Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Four months later, an Afghani citizen, Farhad Shakeri, was charged with another assassination scheme against Trump. And in July 2024, US law enforcement arrested a Pakistani man , Asif Merchant, who allegedly had ties to the IRGC, for plotting to kill Trump. The president, according to the news website Semafor , external , often muses - and jokes - about becoming a target of assassination. "Nobody told me how dangerous it is to be president, and if they had told me, I probably wouldn't have run," one White House official recounted Trump as saying. "And he makes comments like that in jest, but there's a reality behind that." Signs calling for Trump's death are often seen during anti-US and anti-Israel rallies in Iran Trump's bombing of Iran's nuclear research facilities in 2025, and this year's expansive bombing campaign and naval blockade, prompted a new round of Iranian threats against Trump – and a direct warning by the US president in response.
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