Trump left instructions to have Iran ‘obliterated’ if he's killedPresident Donald Trump told Fox News' senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy in February 2025 that he left instructions to have Iran "obliterated" if the regime ever assassinated him.
The comments found new light Friday after a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Israeli officials informed Trump of a new Iranian plot to assassinate him.
"That would be a terrible thing for them to do… If they did that, they would be obliterated," Trump said in the Oval Office on Feb. 4, 2025. "That would be the end. I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left."
His remarks came about a year before Operation Epic Fury began. At the time, Doocy asked Trump about the possibility of Iran trying to assassinate him as retaliation for the 2020 strike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
Just last week, signs held at the funeral procession of Iran's former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the first wave of strikes when Operation Epic Fury began in late February 2026, had the message, "We Will Kill Trump."
Posted by Robert McGreevy
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