{"id":6679,"date":"2024-11-08T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:23:06","slug":"6679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/11\/08\/6679\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is really dangerous, and close to an act of war, for Iran to do this.\u00a0 In addition, I\u2019m not aware of any assassination order\/fatwa every issued by Iran that they\u2019ve rescinded, so Donald Trump as citizen and as president will continue to be threatened.\u00a0 Which means Iran is threatening the U.S.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/08\/donald-trump-iran-assassination-plot-00188498\">\u201cIran ordered an operative to assassinate Trump before the election, federal prosecutors say,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 11-8-24.\u00a0\u00a0The Iranian government ordered an operative, Farhad Shakeri, to assassinate Donald Trump before the 2024 election, Manhattan federal prosecutors said Friday.\u00a0 This is an indictment for murder-for-hire and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. \u00a0Shakeri is in Iran and remains at large.\u00a0 The IRGC made the order, which might mean Quds Force, I can\u2019t determine from the news article.\u00a0 \u201cOne month later, on Oct. 7, according to prosecutors, the IRGC ordered Shakeri to put forward a plan to assassinate Trump within one week and, if that proved impossible, to pause the plan until after Election Day, because the IRGC assumed Trump would lose, making him easier to kill.\u201d\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cShakeri as having developed and used a network of criminal associates during his time in prison \u201cto supply the IRGC with operatives to conduct surveillance and assassinations of IRGC targets.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 \u201cTrump has been a target of Iran since January 2020, when, as president, Trump ordered a drone strike killing Qassem Soleimani, then Iran\u2019s most powerful military general.\u00a0 Since then, Tehran has issued statements promising revenge for the drone strike as well as published videos depicting the death of Trump and others connected to the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is really dangerous, and close to an act of war, for Iran to do this.\u00a0 In addition, I\u2019m not aware of any assassination order\/fatwa every issued by Iran that they\u2019ve rescinded, so Donald Trump as citizen and as president will continue to be threatened.\u00a0 Which means Iran is threatening the U.S.\u00a0 \u201cIran ordered an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/11\/08\/6679\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}