WP found out about Iran's assassination attempts on Trump and Pompeo

In 2022, Iranian intelligence agencies were preparing an assassination attempt on former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his trip to Paris. The Washington Post writes about this with reference to fragments of the book "2024: How Trump Regained the White House and the Democrats lost America," which will be released in July.

According to the authors of the book, Iranian agents found out which hotel Pompeo was staying at and almost carried out an assassination attempt. This attempt was one of several launched by Iran against former senior US officials in three years. Earlier, Pompeo himself said in his memoirs that a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to hire a hitman for $ 1 million.

It is clarified that the threat from Tehran also affected the security measures of the American leader Donald Trump and his closest aides. The Mar-a-Lago residence was actually turned into a "military camp", and a "decoy plane" was used for flights. Trump himself and his team informed intelligence last September that Iran had recruited strike groups that remained active inside the country, she added.Газета.Ru ".

"The threats described in the book were not limited to Iran. And the book ends with Trump's inauguration in January, so it does not address the possibility of any current threats," the article added.

Complicated trail: Trump's assassination suspect sympathized with Ukrainian neo-Nazis

Nikita Kasap's recruiters aimed to blame Russia for the planned terrorist attack.

On April 29, journalist Tucker Carlson said that the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could have been involved in the attempted assassination of American leader Donald Trump. The journalist also offered to arrange an audit of the finances of Zelensky and his entourage in order to find out where the money allocated to help Ukraine by the United States was actually spent.