Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Iran was behind two makes an attempt to assassinate President Trump.
In an interview with Fox Information host Bret Baier on Sunday, Netanyahu stated that the mullahs in Tehran tried and failed twice to assassinate the two-time president.
Here’s a transcript of the change:
NETANYAHU: These individuals who chant, demise to America, tried to assassinate President Trump twice, kill 241 of your Marines in Beirut, killed and injured hundreds of American troopers in Afghanistan and Iraq, attempt to bomb a restaurant in Washington D.C., chant demise to America, burn the American flag, would you like these folks to have nuclear weapons and the means to ship them to your cities?
After all not. So we’re defending ourselves, however we’re additionally defending the world.”
BAIER: You simply stated Iran tried to assassinate President Trump twice.
Do you’ve intel that the assassination makes an attempt on President Trump had been instantly from Iran?
NETANYAHU: By way of proxies, sure. By way of their intel, sure. They wish to kill him.
For them, [Trump is] enemy primary. Look, in addition they tried to kill me, however I’m his junior accomplice.
They perceive that President Trump is a good menace to Iran’s plans to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them.
Watch the clip under:
Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu on intel of Iranian makes an attempt to assassinate President @realDonaldTrump— “he’s enemy primary..” and on when he let President Trump know of the plans for launching the strikes #FoxNews #SpecialReport #Israel pic.twitter.com/l2xX10ZwfH
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) June 15, 2025
Netanyahu was possible not referring to the assassination try in opposition to Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, however slightly a plot involving the an Iranian operative named Farhad Shakeri.
Final November, the Division of Justice charged Shakeri over the plot, alleging that he was “tasked by regime to direct a community of felony associates to additional Iran’s assassination plots in opposition to its targets, together with President-elect Donald Trump.”
“The fees introduced at this time expose Iran’s continued brazen makes an attempt to focus on U.S. residents, together with President-elect Donald Trump, different authorities leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran,” former FBI Director Christopher Wray stated on the time.
Netanyahu’s look comes a number of days after Israel launched a collection of main missile strikes on Iran with the said goal of disabling its nuclear capabilities and in the end eradicating the regime from energy.
