One senior intelligence source informed CBS that the president “held off from initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme.”
When reporters pushed him on how Iran would respond to being given no conditions for negotiation, he casually replied: “Good luck.”
He added shortly after: “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
Just a few hours before Trump’s comments, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had already issued his own response to the demands.
He cautioned that “any US military intervention” would come at a high price and boldly stated: “The Iranian nation will not surrender.”
It turns out, Trump himself addressed this very question earlier in the year and gave a pretty direct answer.
As per the Associated Press, the U.S. already has a robust national security strategy lined up, ready to be triggered if Tehran tries something of that nature.
The man allegedly involved was 51-year-old Farhad Shakeri—an Afghan-born U.S. resident with a criminal past. Reports claim he was acting under the direction of Iran’s powerful paramilitary unit, the Revolutionary Guard, and was assigned to assassinate Trump “within seven days.”
However, the plot reportedly stalled when Shakeri admitted he couldn’t carry out the mission within that short timeframe. He even suggested pushing it off until after the upcoming election.
But now that Trump has made it absolutely clear what would follow if Iran made such a move, he seems more than comfortable publicly issuing threats aimed at Iran’s leadership.
On Truth Social, he wrote: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding.”
Meanwhile, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth confirmed to senators that the military is fully prepared and ready to respond if Trump gives the green light.
