13.7.2026
Western intelligence sources warned US of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump while he was in Turkey for the NATO meeting in Turkey.
According to Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, senior Iranian officials saw Trump’s visit to Ankara, Turkey’s capital, last week for a major NATO summit as an opportunity to take out the US president.
But US authorities were warned of the plot in advance, prompting a last-minute switch of his aircraft from his new Air Force One plane to an older model.
Trump said while at the NATO summit in Turkey: ‘They [Iran] want to take out the US leader – me. I’m on every list.’
‘I’m on every single one of their lists, and so far I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long, because that’s the way it goes.
The United States and Iran each asserted on Monday they controlled the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks stretching across the wider Middle East, further threatening any diplomacy to end the war.
The attacks, sparked by Iran striking a container ship Sunday in the strait off the coast of Oman, again underlined that the waterway that once saw a fifth of the world’s traded crude oil and natural gas pass through it remained the key issue in negotiations. Agency reports
Trump... target of Iran assasination plot. photo nyt.