{"id":1207631,"date":"2022-01-11T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207631"},"modified":"2022-01-11T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:49:12","slug":"iran-threatens-to-assassinate-top-trump-administration-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-threatens-to-assassinate-top-trump-administration-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Threatens to Assassinate Top Trump Administration Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-threatens-to-assassinate-top-trump-administration-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237517350-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Iran is threatening to assassinate senior U.S. officials who were involved in the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, two years after&nbsp;President Donald Trump ordered the strike against the Iranian general.<\/p>\n<p>Iran recently announced it was imposing \u201csanctions\u201d on 52 U.S. officials, in what a senior Biden administration official said amounted to a threat of violence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake: the United States of America will protect and defend its citizens,\u201d White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday. \u201cThis includes those serving the United States now and those who formerly served.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will work with our allies and partners to deter and respond to any attacks carried out by Iran,\u201d he said. \u201cShould Iran attack any of our nationals, including any of the 52 people named yesterday, it will face severe consequences.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sec. of State Mike Pompeo says Soleimani was planning &#8220;the big attack.&#8221; &#8220;They were aiming to take down significant amounts of Americans.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6GC69Xp1s\">https:\/\/t.co\/m6GC69Xp1s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1213494306134265857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In remarks published by&nbsp;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/fa\/news\/1400\/10\/16\/2639776\/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A2%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%85-%D9%85%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%85-%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A8%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87-%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82%D9%87-%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%B4%D8%AF\">Iranian media,<\/a>&nbsp;IRGC Quds Force Commander Sardar Esmail Qaani vowed to enact revenge over the killing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever it is needed, we will provide for the basis of revenge against the Americans from within their houses and by people by their side without us being present,\u201d Qaani said. \u201cIf wise people in America are found who deal with those who committed the atrocity of assassinating Commander Soleimani, this action will be much less burdensome for America than if the offspring of the Resistance Front, who know no bounds, to themselves go and take this revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/white-house-worried-iran-is-plotting-assassination-attempts-against-trump-administration-officials\">cited<\/a> one of the 52 \u201csanctioned\u201d officials, former&nbsp;deputy national security adviser under Trump, Victoria Coates, as saying that while Iran has made such threats before, they are not usually successful.<\/p>\n<p>The report said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo far, they haven\u2019t been successful, but they only have to be successful once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coates is one of the individuals named on Iran\u2019s new sanctions list, which she agreed is \u201ca euphemism for something more concrete\u201d than an economic punishment or refusal to grant a hypothetical visa request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be reassuring if either somebody from the White House or the FBI wanted to reach out and say, \u2018There are no current threats against you of which we are aware; do you have any concerns?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Coates said that she isn\u2019t aware of any such contact between the Biden team and former Trump administration officials such as herself and credited Sullivan for issuing the \u201cvery welcome\u201d statement on Sunday. \u201cThey\u2019ve been pretty busy,\u201d she acknowledged. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot going on \u2026 I\u2019m very glad he\u2019s focused on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The threat of \u201csanctions\u201d occured even as attempts to revive the tattered 2015 nuclear deal continue in Vienna. On Monday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry nixed the option of an interim agreement with world powers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POLLAK: Soleimani&#8217;s death actually improves the prospects for peace by encouraging the Iranian people to stand up against their rulers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yeVEFebZKu\">https:\/\/t.co\/yeVEFebZKu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1213258511137808384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe all need to make sure that the return of the United States [to the deal is accompanied by verification and the receipt of guarantees, and that a lifting of sanctions must take place. These are not achieved by any temporary agreement,\u201d a spokesman for the ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-rules-out-prospect-of-an-interim-nuclear-agreement-in-vienna\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iran marked the anniversary of Soleimani\u2019s death by revealing the \u201cuntold story\u201d of how the regime smuggled arms to Palestinian terror groups in order to&nbsp;\u201cto multiply the power of the resistance against the Zionist regime,\u201d <em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-692178\">reported<\/a> citing Iranian media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is threatening to assassinate senior U.S. officials who were involved in the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, two years after\u00a0President Donald Trump ordered the strike against the Iranian general. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}