(JNS) Israel has shared fresh intelligence with Washington, warning that the Islamic Republic is pursuing a new plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump. Former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus has publicly described the warning as one that “should be taken very seriously.” These developments are not isolated incidents. They are the latest evidence of a pattern that American policymakers can no longer afford to dismiss.
For decades, Tehran has fused religious decrees, state propaganda, intelligence operations and proxy terrorism into a single strategic doctrine. Yet despite repeated assassination plots, public incitement and official calls for violence against American leaders, US institutions have too often treated these acts as diplomatic crises rather than recognizing them for what they represent: state-sponsored Islamist terrorism.
Until the United States is willing to name the threat accurately, it cannot defeat it.
In the midst of the Iranian regime’s deceptive and theatrical negotiations with the United States, 66 members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts issued a statement declaring Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mahdur al-dam—individuals whose blood may...
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