
US officials say Donald Trump has been the focus of repeated assassination plots by Iranian-linked operatives on American soil over at least five years, with federal court documents outlining how 'kill teams' were allegedly recruited, funded and directed to murder the former president and other senior politicians.
Iran's leadership has sought revenge on Donald Trump since he ordered the 2020 drone strike in Baghdad that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani, a powerful commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.