Islamic Republic of Iran Ramps Up Efforts to Murder American Officials

The Islamic Republic of Iran has never made any secret of its bloodlust, and it will continue to breathe threats and murder against its enemies, real and imagined, as long as it continues to exist. As an Islamic republic, it hews closely to the tenets of the religion that calls upon believers to kill unbelievers “wherever you find them” (cf. Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, 9:5) and to strive to subjugate and humiliate them where they are not converted or killed (cf. Qur’an 9:29).

This is an imperative that the leaders of the Islamic Republic regard with the utmost seriousness. Ynet News recently reported that “U.S. intelligence has warned that Iran has significantly intensified efforts to assassinate American diplomats and senior officials in the Middle East and beyond, with some plots reportedly reaching advanced stages, as Washington reduces its diplomatic presence across the region amid fears of a wider military confrontation.”

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton announced that Iran had “substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel” and said that jihad plotting was in “advanced stages” in some countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. Clayton “also expressed concern that the information was not reaching enough American personnel who could be exposed to the threats.”

This is just the latest round of such threats, and American diplomats are by no means the only U.S. officials the pious rulers of the Islamic Republic hope to murder. Back in November 2024, the U.S. government charged three men, including one Iranian, with plotting to assassinate Trump at the behest of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in revenge for the 2020 killing of IRGC top dog Qasem Soleimani. The Iranians hotly denied this, claiming improbably that it was a malicious invention of the Justice Department, which at that time was firmly in the camp of OId Joe Biden and full of people who would have cheered lustily if the Iranians had managed to murder Trump.

Fox News reported at that time that an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, “categorically dismissed allegations that Iran was involved in attempts to assassinate former and current US officials.” Baghaei thundered that the Justice Department’s report was “completely baseless and rejected,” and even claimed that similar allegations in the past have likewise been “firmly denied and proven false.”

Who did Baghaei think is behind all this lying? Why, the Jews, of course. He said that the American claims of an Iranian assassination plot against Trump were ” a malicious conspiracy orchestrated by Zionist and anti-Iranian circles, aimed at further complicating the issues between the US and Iran.” He assured the world that the Islamic Republic of Iran “remains committed” to using “all legitimate and legal means” to “restore the rights of the Iranian nation.” What rights has the Iranian nation lost? Baghaei didn’t get into that, and with good reason, since the only beef the Iranian regime really has with Israel is that it’s a Jewish state. Israel has never impinged upon Iran’s rights or threatened it in any way.

The Iranians have actually admitted in the past that they were trying to kill Trump. In February 2023, Fox News reported that Iran had renewed its threats against Trump and the others, and even stated them in Islamic religious terms. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace force, declared: “Allah willing, we are looking to kill Trump [and] Pompeo… and military commanders who issued the order should be killed.”

Even before that, Iran’s state-controlled Ahlul Bayt News Agency reported on January 23, 2021 that the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s official website “posted a photo-montage of former US President Donald Trump playing golf under the shadow of a drone, vowing to avenge the assassination of Iran’s Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.”

Khamenei also said in December 2020: “Revenge is certain.” He added: “The assassin of Soleimani and the one who ordered the murder should be punished. As an esteemed person said, Soleimani’s shoe is worth more than the assassin’s head and even decapitation of the assassin will not compensate for Soleimani’s shoe; but they did the wrong thing. They should be punished. The one who ordered and the assassin should know that they should be punished at any time possible.”

Trump was a favored Khamenei target even before Soleimani was killed. In February 2019, the supreme leader declared to a military gathering that “as long as America continues its wickedness, the Iranian nation will not abandon ‘Death to America.’ ‘Death to America’ means death to Trump, John Bolton, and Pompeo. It means death to American rulers.”

And now, the Islamic Republic has ramped up its efforts to murder U.S. officials. Blood and death and destruction are all the Islamic Republic is about.