“Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them,” Politico, 10-11-24. For those media outlets and individuals complaining that Pres. Trump is not threatened, they ignore what the FBI says, and they ignore stories like this from the left-leaning Politico about the efforts by Iran to apparently kill as many as 50 former Trump administration officials. ““This is extraordinarily serious,” said Matt Olsen, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for national security. “Iran has made it very clear that they are determined to seek retaliation against former officials in connection with the Soleimani strike.” … “Some of those officials are now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on security for themselves and their families.” … “Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who carried this out should be punished,” Khamenei posted on his social media account nearly a year later, in December 2020. “This revenge will certainly happen at the right time.” … “This is historic, and different and new,” said a former senior Trump administration official with knowledge of the Soleimani killing. “We’ve never had former senior national security officials, a Cabinet member, that have had this risk profile from a foreign adversary.” … Four people who spoke with POLITICO cited the example of Salman Rushdie, the Nobel Prize winning author. Thirty-four years after Iran’s supreme leader ordered Rushdie’s killing over a novel he claimed insulted Islam, a would-be assassin stabbed Rushie 15 times onstage at an event in New York. “When they put these fatwas out, they’re like for life,” said the first senior national security official. … In addition to Trump, who receives Secret Service protection as the former president, at least seven former generals, diplomats and civilian policy advisers from his White House receive a 24/7 government security detail, according to the people who spoke to POLITICO. Sometimes a single security detail includes roughly a half-dozen people. The list is dominated by those with direct ties to the Soleimani killing or high-up in the Trump administration: Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense; Mark Milley, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Paul Nakasone, head of NSA and U.S. Cyber Command; Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command; Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State; and Brian Hook, the State Department’s Special Representative for Iran. … This July the FBI arrested an Iranian operative who had entered the U.S. in an effort to arrange the assassination of “a political person” in retaliation for Soleimani’s death, the Justice Department has said. The individual, a Pakistani national, even remotely scouted a Trump rally.”
Iran Air is still at it. Israel will have to decide how to ground these planes. “Iran’s national airliner accused of flying weapons to Beirut airport for terror proxy Hezbollah: Report,” Fox News, 10-11-24.
“Putin owes Iran – he may be about to find out how much,” Telegraph, 10-11-24. Pezeshkian and Putin met in Turkmenistan.
“Iran threatens to target US allies in Mideast if Israel allowed to use their military bases, airspace,” WSJ, 10-11-24.
“Moscow and Tehran share ‘very close’ worldview, says Putin as he meets Iran’s president,” Politico, 10-11-24.
“The Nasrallah killing is upending Iran’s security strategy. Here’s what to expect next,” Iran Source, 10-11-24.