President Donald Trump was allegedly targeted in two failed assassination plots orchestrated by Iran during his 2024 presidential campaign, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The startling accusation came during an interview on Fox News on Sunday, as Netanyahu defended Israel’s latest military actions against Iran and described Trump as a central obstacle to the Islamic regime’s nuclear ambitions.
Federal officials previously arrested two men tied to separate assassination attempts on Trump during the campaign trail.
In July 2024, engineering student Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, narrowly missing the president.
A bullet grazed Trump’s ear before Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Less than three months later, on Sept. 15, authorities apprehended Ryan Routh at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Routh was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and had written a four-page letter in jail linking himself to Crooks and condemning the U.S. political system.
While U.S. agencies have not officially connected either man to Iran, Netanyahu insisted that Iranian intelligence had used proxy operatives in the attempts.
“Through proxies, yes,” Netanyahu said when pressed by Fox anchor Bret Baier. “Through their intel, yes. They want to kill him.”
The prime minister’s claim marks the most direct accusation to date linking Iran to the 2024 plots, the New York Post reports.
Trump himself previously suggested a connection during a September 2024 speech, but no formal government declaration has been made.
“These people who chant, ‘Death to America,’ tried to assassinate President Trump twice,” Netanyahu said, asserting that the Islamic republic viewed Trump as the most serious threat to its nuclear goals.
“Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your cities? Of course not. So we’re defending ourselves, but we’re also defending the world.”
Iran has repeatedly denied any involvement in assassination attempts targeting Trump or Israeli officials.
In November 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed charges against an unnamed member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alleging that the operative attempted to recruit Farhad Shakeri, 51, to surveil and assassinate Trump.
Prosecutors stated that the operative made clear that finances would not be an issue for completing the mission.
Netanyahu also referenced his own experiences, stating that Iran had attempted to kill him as well, though he emphasized Trump was seen by Iran as the greater threat.
“Look, they also tried to kill me, but I’m his junior partner,” Netanyahu told Baier. “They understand that President Trump is a great threat to Iran’s plans to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them.”
Following the rally shooting, Trump recounted the incident in a July 2024 interview with The Post.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump said. “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead.”
Netanyahu’s comments come amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran, including recent exchanges of missile fire.
The Israeli leader used the interview to call on the American public to recognize what he described as Iran’s expanding threat and to justify his country’s military response.
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