Iran Has New Plot to Assassinate Trump, Israel Says

As Israel warns of a new Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, Americans are forced to ask how far Tehran is willing to go to strike at our sovereignty and silence a leader who refuses to bow to globalist pressure.

Story Snapshot

Israel shared intelligence that Iran devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump, alarming U.S. officials.
U.S. prosecutors already charged an Iranian regime asset over a prior plot to kill Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Iran’s president flatly denies any plots, calling the claims an Israeli tactic to spread fear about Iran.
The Justice Department and federal courts have laid out detailed allegations tying operatives back to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Israeli Intelligence Warns of a Fresh Iranian Plot

Israeli intelligence services recently shared information with the United States claiming that Iran has devised a new plan to assassinate President Donald Trump. Reports describe Israeli officials telling their American counterparts that Iranian planners were “considering” killing Trump, adding to already high tensions in the Middle East. Coverage from major outlets notes this intelligence as serious enough to brief senior U.S. officials, even though many details of the alleged plan remain classified or undisclosed to the public. For conservative Americans, this looks like a hostile regime targeting a duly elected president simply because he stands up to them and refuses to play along with their nuclear ambitions and proxy wars.

Media reports stress that much of the information so far is labeled “alleged” and “reportedly,” since U.S. authorities have not yet released primary documents confirming the new plot’s specifics. That careful language does not mean the threat is fake; it reflects how intelligence is often handled before formal charges or public disclosures. Israel has a long history of tracking Iranian operations, and officials there have strong incentives to warn Washington when they see a direct threat to the American commander in chief. When a close ally raises the alarm about a possible hit on the president, patriots understand that it cannot be brushed aside as mere rumor, especially after what has already been proven about earlier plots.

Documented Iran-Linked Plots Against Trump and U.S. Officials

Long before this latest Israeli warning, the United States Department of Justice publicly charged Farhad Shakeri, a man described as an asset of the Iranian regime, in a murder-for-hire case tied to an alleged plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign. According to the official complaint, Shakeri told law enforcement that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ordered him in October 2024 to provide a plan to kill Trump, and tasked him with directing criminal associates to advance Iran’s assassination plots in the United States. Two New York men were charged alongside him for helping with surveillance and related activities, underscoring that this was not some lone crank but part of a wider operation linked to Tehran’s security apparatus. These court documents, unlike anonymous leaks, carry the full weight of sworn statements and federal oversight, giving Americans solid reason to take Iranian plots seriously.

Another case, involving Pakistani businessman Asif Merchant, further shows how Iranian-linked networks tried to reach into the United States. Merchant admitted in court that he sought to put an assassination in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign and was convicted on terrorism and murder-for-hire charges by a federal jury. He testified that Iranian handlers in Tehran identified Trump, Joe Biden, and Nikki Haley as major targets, painting a picture of a regime willing to use foreign operatives and hired killers to attack American political leaders. At the same time, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. forces killed an Iranian official believed to have led an effort to assassinate Trump, saying the president “got the last laugh” after the leader of that unit was hunted down and eliminated. Taken together, these cases show a pattern: Iran’s security arms probing for ways to strike Trump and other officials, and American law enforcement and military pushing back hard.

Iran’s Blanket Denial and the Credibility Gap

Despite detailed U.S. legal filings and convictions, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has flatly denied that his government ever plotted to kill Trump, either during the campaign or afterward. In an interview, he claimed Iran has “never made any attempts to assassinate anyone” and argued that talk of a plot was “another tactic employed by Israel and other nations to foster Iranophobia.” When pressed on whether there was “by no means” a scheme to eliminate Trump, Pezeshkian answered “none whatsoever,” offering no documents, witnesses, or records to counter the U.S. complaint against Shakeri or the evidence presented at Merchant’s trial. Tehran’s response is total denial without specific engagement with the facts laid out by American prosecutors, leaving a wide gap between what Iran says publicly and what U.S. courts and the Justice Department have put on the record.

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— KHON2 News (@KHONnews) July 10, 2026

For many conservative readers, that credibility gap matters. On one side stand sworn statements, criminal complaints, and a jury conviction pointing to Iranian Revolutionary Guard involvement in murder-for-hire schemes against Trump and other figures. On the other side is a regime that has every political reason to deny state-sponsored terrorism, especially while facing sanctions and international pressure. When Israel now reports that Iran is “considering” a new plan to assassinate Trump, those warnings land in a context where past plots linked to Iran were not hypothetical—they were serious enough for the Justice Department to bring charges and for U.S. forces to target an alleged mastermind. The stakes are clear: if foreign powers can threaten the president on American soil, then our national security, our elections, and the rule of law are all under direct attack. In that environment, Trump’s supporters expect their government to stay vigilant, cut through media spin, and treat every credible threat from hostile regimes with firm resolve and zero tolerance.