U.S. intelligence officials concluded that intelligence pointing to a possible Iranian attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump in July was not evidence of a serious or immediate threat before the president was secretly pulled off Air Force One and onto another military aircraft, according to a new report.<\/p>\n
The extraordinary security operation saw Trump covertly removed<\/a> from Air Force One aboard a catering truck<\/a> in Turkey following the NATO summit.<\/p>\n Sources familiar with the matter told ABC News<\/a> that the initial warning originated with Israel and suggested Iran could target Air Force One with a shoulder-fired missile as Trump prepared to leave.<\/p>\n Israeli officials passed the information to Washington despite not having enough time to fully review it or determine its credibility because of the president’s imminent departure, according to the report.<\/p>\n U.S. intelligence agencies, however, subsequently raised doubts about the warning and ultimately assessed that it did not point to a serious or immediate threat, the sources revealed to the network.<\/p>\n The Secret Service nevertheless determined that the potential consequences were too significant to disregard and recommended additional precautions.<\/p>\n Trump was transported in a catering vehicle to a military aircraft. At the same time, Air Force One departed separately with the oblivious<\/a> traveling press corps and Trump staffers on board as part of the elaborate security operation.<\/p>\n Trump has faced longstanding threats from Iran since ordering the 2020 strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani during his first administration.<\/p>\n U.S. and Turkish authorities continued investigating after Trump left but found no evidence of an operational missile plot, according to another official.<\/p>\n The post US Intel Cast Doubt on Iran Assassination Threat Before Trump’s Top-Secret Plane Swap: Report<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. intelligence officials concluded that intelligence pointing to a possible Iranian attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5781,38,34,9022,19154],"class_list":["post-248811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-air-force-one","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-military-aircraft","tag-security-operation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117093693040487499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}