Ali Khamenei, Iran’s religious dictator, posted a bold photograph on his official website showing President Trump on a golf course On January 22, 2021 captioned “Revenge is inevitable.” On February 25, 2023, Brigadier General Hossein Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force that is listed on the U.S. blacklist, declared, “God willing, we will be able to kill Trump and Pompeo. On that night (during the missile strike on the Ain al-Assad base in Iraq), we could have killed a thousand Americans if we had wanted to, but they were just soldiers, and it wouldn’t have made a difference. However, Trump, Pompeo, and McKenzie need to be killed,” as reported by Asre Iran and Tasnim.

Ahmad Hamzeh, a member of the Iranian parliament, announced during a session that “on behalf of the people of Kerman, we offer a three-million-dollar cash reward to anyone who kills Trump,” (semi-official ISNA news agency, January 21, 2020). Following an assassination attempt on Rushdie, the Kayhan newspaper, echoing Khamenei’s rhetoric, stated, “Taking revenge on the perpetrators and criminals on American soil is not difficult and, after this, Trump and Pompeo will feel increasingly threatened” (Kayhan newspaper, August 12, 2023). Numerous other threats were issued by high-ranking officials of the Iranian regime, vowing severe retribution for........

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