Iranian MP says he would not hesitate to kill Trump
An Iranian lawmaker said he would kill Donald Trump after the US president threatened to obliterate Iran if it sought to assassinate him.
An Iranian lawmaker said he would kill Donald Trump after the US president threatened to obliterate Iran if it sought to assassinate him.
"For my part, I would say that whenever I get the opportunity, I will not hesitate for a moment to kill you, Donald Trump," said Mojtaba Zarei, a member of the Iranian Parliament's Foreign Policy Commission.
"And I am a political official speaking this diplomatically," he said in a post on Iranian social media platform Eitaa.
While signing a sanctions directive on Tuesday to increase pressure on Tehran, Trump was asked about the potential fallout for Iran if it made an attempt on his life.
US law enforcement last year accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a powerful paramilitary organization, of organizing a plot to kill Trump in retaliation for his order to assassinate its foreign operations chief Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
"If they did that, they would be obliterated," Trump said.
"That would be the end. I've left instructions - if they do it, they get obliterated. There won't be anything left."
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reacted to the remarks on Wednesday, saying, “Tehran reserves its right to pursue a legal process for achieving justice regarding the killing of national champions and senior officials to achieve results in domestic and international courts.”
