If it kills him, US President Donald Trump says, "Iran would be obliterated."

In the days leading up to Donald Trump's July campaign rally in Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear, security was stepped up in response to an Iranian threat against him.

US President Donald Trump said he has given his advisors the order to strike, warning Iran on Tuesday that it would be "obliterated" if it tried to kill him.

He stated, "If they did that, they would be obliterated," as he signed an executive order to put Tehran under the greatest amount of pressure. Nothing will remain after this.

Vice President JD Vance would take over as president in the event of Trump's assassination and would not be obligated to carry out Trump's orders. Iranian threats against Trump and other politicians have been monitored by federal investigators for years.

Trump oversaw the 2020 attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

According to US sources, Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July after security was heightened in response to an Iranian threat against him. Authorities at the time, however, stated that they did not think Iran had anything to do with the murder attempt.The Justice Department said in November that it had stopped an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump ahead of the election.

Farhad Shakeri, 51, was allegedly directed by Iranian officials in September to carry out surveillance and kill Trump, according to the department. Iran still has Shakeri on the loose.
Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, denied the accusation, saying it was a scheme by organizations with ties to Israel to sour relations between Iran and the United States.

The accusation claims that Shakeri, who is alleged to be an Iranian government asset, told investigators about the scheme. He was accused of maintaining a network of criminal friends that Tehran had enlisted for surveillance and murder-for-hire schemes, and he had previously served time in American prisons for robbery.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, Shakeri, an Afghan national residing in Iran, told the FBI that a contact in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard had instructed him last September to put aside other work and come up with a plan within seven days to spy on and kill Trump.
Trump has stripped former National Security Advisor John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and his senior staffer Brian Hook of their federal security protection. Because of their tough stance against the Islamic Republic during Trump's first term, all three had been threatened by Iran.