US EditionUS kills Iranian leader of Trump assassination plot, Pentagon says
U.S. forces killed the head of an Iranian unit behind the 2024 Trump assassination plot during Operation Epic Fury, part of a broader campaign to degrade Iran's military.
- On March 4, the U.S. military said it killed an alleged Iranian covert unit leader accused of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the operation took place on Tuesday.
- Background reporting shows the U.S. Justice Department filed charges against an Iranian man in connection with an alleged IRGC-ordered plot to assassinate Trump, following a July 2024 attack.
- A Pentagon briefing detailed a U.S. submarine torpedo sinking an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean Tuesday night as U.S. and Israeli forces accelerate airstrikes with 500-pound and 1,000-pound bombs.
- An Iranian government agency reported at least 1,045 deaths, while U.S. and Israeli forces faced retaliatory missile and drone attacks, prompting the U.S. State Department to authorise evacuations.
- U.S. officials say more U.S. forces are arriving in the region, and Hegseth states, "The US will use an unlimited stockpile of precision gravity bombs.
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Mastermind of Iran plot to assassinate Trump is dead, Hegseth reveals: US ‘got the last laugh’
Hegseth did not identify the individual, but Israeli media named him as Rahman Mokadam, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) special operations division.
The FBI has revealed a plot by Iran to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign. Iran has reported that Iran ordered one of its agents to run a criminal network based in New York City to follow and assassinate then-President Trump in the last weeks of the 2024 election, telling him that “money is not a problem,” the feds revealed. An anonymous official of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commissioned 51-y…
"Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump was the last one to laugh," said Secretary of War Pete on Wednesday.
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