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\u201cIran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 10-11-24.\u00a0\u00a0For 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.\u00a0 \u201c\u201cThis is extraordinarily serious,\u201d said Matt Olsen, the Justice Department\u2019s assistant attorney general for national security. \u201cIran has made it very clear that they are determined to seek retaliation against former officials in connection with the Soleimani strike.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cSome of those officials are now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on security for themselves and their families.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cThose who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who carried this out should be punished,\u201d Khamenei posted on his social media account nearly a year later, in December 2020. \u201cThis revenge will certainly happen at the right time.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cThis is historic, and different and new,\u201d said a former senior Trump administration official with knowledge of the Soleimani killing. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had former senior national security officials, a Cabinet member, that have had this risk profile from a foreign adversary.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 Four people who spoke with POLITICO cited the example of Salman Rushdie, the Nobel Prize winning author. Thirty-four years after Iran\u2019s supreme leader ordered Rushdie\u2019s killing over a novel he claimed insulted Islam, a would-be assassin stabbed Rushie 15 times onstage at an event in New York. \u201cWhen they put these fatwas out, they\u2019re like for life,\u201d said the first senior national security official.\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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\u2019s Special Representative for Iran.\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 This July the FBI arrested an Iranian operative who had entered the U.S. in an effort to arrange the assassination of \u201ca political person\u201d in retaliation for Soleimani\u2019s death, the Justice Department has said. The individual, a Pakistani national, even remotely scouted a Trump rally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran Air is still at it.\u00a0 Israel will have to decide how to ground these planes.\u00a0 \u201cIran’s national airliner accused of flying weapons to Beirut airport for terror proxy Hezbollah: Report,\u201d<\/a> Fox News, 10-11-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin owes Iran – he may be about to find out how much,\u201d<\/a> Telegraph, 10-11-24.\u00a0 Pezeshkian and Putin met in Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran threatens to target US allies in Mideast if Israel allowed to use their military bases, airspace,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 10-11-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoscow and Tehran share \u2018very close\u2019 worldview, says Putin as he meets Iran\u2019s president,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 10-11-24.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nasrallah killing is upending Iran\u2019s security strategy. Here\u2019s what to expect next,\u201d<\/a> Iran Source, 10-11-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them,\u201d Politico, 10-11-24.\u00a0\u00a0For 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 … <\/p>\n

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