'They want to kill him': Netanyahu claims Iran's behind two assassination attempts on Trump

Iran wants to kill US President Trump, says Israeli PM Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of being behind two failed assassination attempts on US President Donald Trump during his 2024 re-election campaign, claiming Tehran sees him as a threat to its nuclear program.

"They want to kill him. He's enemy number one," Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News, his first since Israel launched its intense attacks on Iran on June 12.

Netanyahu said, “These people who chant ‘Death to America’, tried to assassinated President Trump twice."

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“Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and means to deliver them to your cities?” the Israeli PM asked.

"He's a decisive leader. He never took the path that others took to try to bargain with them in a way that is weak, giving them basically a pathway to enrich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb, padding it with billions and billions of dollars," Netanyahu said.

"He took up this fake agreement and basically tore it up. He killed Qasem Soleimani. He made it very clear, including now, 'You cannot have a nuclear weapon, which means you cannot enrich uranium.' He's been very forceful, so for them, he's enemy number one," Fox News quoted Netanyahu as saying.