President Donald Trump has directed his aides on how they should react if Iran were to make an attempt on his life, saying it would be “obliterated.”
“If they did that, they would be obliterated,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday at the White House. “That would be the end. I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left and they shouldn’t be able to.”
Trump also warned Iran against acquiring a nuclear weapon as he signed two executive orders, one of which reintroduced his maximum pressure campaign on the adversary, in addition to withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Trump’s comments precede his meeting on Tuesday afternoon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and come after the president has repeatedly proposed
