President Donald Trump told a reporter that he has \u201cleft instructions\u201d to be carried out if Iran succeeds in assassinating him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several people were carrying signs<\/a> in Mashhad, Iran, ahead of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s burial, calling for the president\u2019s death, including one large one that read, \u201cWe will kill Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hoda, a 35-year-old housewife, told AFP<\/a> news agency. \u201cOnly the death of Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu will soothe our pain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [snip]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iran has openly sought Trump\u2019s assassination<\/a> since 2020, when he directed the attack that killed Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani, the New York Post<\/a> reported on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve been on their list for a long time. That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with,\u201d Trump told the news outlet. \u201c\u2026 The only thing is, I\u2019ve left instructions \u2014 if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they\u2019ve never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Asked about recent reports that Israel passed along intelligence regarding a new plot to take him out, Trump responded that there is no new plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been No. 1 [on Iran\u2019s kill list] for a long time, and it\u2019s the way life is, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI hope you\u2019ll miss me,\u201d Trump added, in a comment directed at Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While in Ankara, Turkey, for a NATO summit, the president told reporters, \u201cI\u2019m number one on the kill list for Iran. They\u2019re lovely people. I\u2019m number one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [snip]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don\u2019t really care, because I\u2019m doing my job. And I\u2019m doing it, I hope, better than anyone\u2019s ever done it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speculation rose after the White House announced that Trump would be departing from Turkey on the old Air Force One<\/a> Wednesday, rather than the newly refurbished and gifted plane from Qatar on which he flew in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n