US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had instructed his advisers to blurring Iran if he fights him.
“If they do so, they will be blocked,” Trump said in an exchange with the correspondents while signing.
“I have left instructions if they did, they will be blurred, there will be nothing remaining.”
The federal authorities have tracked Iranian threats against Trump and other administration officials for years. Trump ordered the killing of 2020 from Qasim Solimani, who led the Jerusalem force in the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The threat to Trump’s life from Iran pushed additional security in the days before a campaign in July in Pennsylvania, where Trump was shot in the ear, according to American officials. But officials at that time said they did not believe that Iran was linked to this assassination attempt.
In November, the Ministry of Justice announced that an Iranian conspiracy has been thwarted to kill Trump before the presidential elections.
The ministry claimed that Iranian officials had issued the 51 -year -old Union Shaker instructions in September to focus on Trump and Trump’s assassination in the end. Participate still generally in Iran.
At that time, Iranian officials rejected this allegation, as Foreign Ministry spokesman Asmael Baji described the report a plot by Israel related to Israel to make relations between Iran and the United States more complicated.
Investigators have been informed of the Trump killing plan by Shakray, the assets of the accused Iranian government, who spent time in American prisons to theft, which the authorities say to preserve the complaint.
Shakeri, an Afghan citizen living in Iran, told the FBI that contact with the semi -military Revolutionary Guards in Iran was ordered last September to allocate other actions that he was doing and collecting a plan within seven days to survey and finally kill Trump, according to a criminal, an unlimited complaint in The Federal Court of Manhattan.
Trump recently canceled the protection of government security for former Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo and his upper assistant, Brian Hook, as well as former national security adviser John Bolton, who all faced threats from Iran after he assumed strict stances against the Islamic Republic during Trump the first administration.
The “difficult note” provokes “the maximum pressure” on Tehran
The comments came before the White House meeting between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
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“He will be ready to meet his Iranian counterpart to try to persuade Iran to abandon what the United States believes is Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
Trump also said that Iran is very close to the presence of a nuclear weapon and that the United States has the right to prevent the sale of Iranian oil to other countries.
Trump accused former President Joe Biden of his failure to accurately impose penalties of oil export, which Trump says that Trump has bought it by allowing him to sell oil to finance a nuclear weapons program and armed militias in the Middle East.
The head of the United Nations International Nuclear Energy Agency told Reuters in December that Iran is “greatly accelerating” the enrichment of uranium to up to 60 % purity, near the level of weapons of approximately 90 %. Iran denied the desire to develop a nuclear weapon.
Trump’s note, among other things, orders the US Treasury Secretary to impose “maximum economic pressure” on Iran, including sanctions and enforcement mechanisms on those who violate the current sanctions.
It also directs the Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to implement a campaign aimed at “pushing Iranian oil exports to scratch.” Washington and Beijing S/P.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York has not immediately returned a request for comment.
Oil exports in Tehran brought $ 53 billion in 2023 and 54 billion dollars in the previous year, according to US Energy Information Administration estimates. During the year 2024, the output has been working at its highest level since 2018, based on OPEC data.
Trump had pushed Iranian oil exports to zero near part of his first term after the re -imposition of sanctions. They rose under Biden’s period, when Iran succeeded in evading sanctions.
The Paris -based International Energy Agency believes that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other OPEC members have a backup capacity to compensate for any lost exports from Iran, who is also a member of OPEC.
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China does not recognize US sanctions and Chinese companies buy more Iranian oil. China and Iran have also built a commercial system, mostly using Chinese Yuan and a network of mediators, avoiding the dollar and exposure to American organizations.
Kevin Book, an analyst at Clarefio Energy, said that the Trump administration could implement the Iranian Petroleum Law (ships) in 2024 to reduce some Iranian barrels.
The ship, which the Biden administration has not strictly implemented, allows measures on foreign ports and refineries that deal with the oil exported from Iran in violation of sanctions. A book said that the move last month by the Shandong Group is a port to prohibit the US tankers from contacting the ports in the Eastern Chinese province indicates that the influence ship that could have it.
Trump also directed the United Nations ambassador to the allies “to complete international sanctions and restrictions on Iran”, according to the 2015 deal between Iran and the main global authorities that raised the sanctions on Tehran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
The United States left the agreement in 2018, during the first period of Trump, and Iran began moving away from its nuclear obligations under the deal. The Trump administration also tried to raise a set of sanctions under the deal in 2020, but this step was rejected by the United Nations Security Council.
Britain, France and Germany told the United Nations Security Council in December that they are ready – if necessary – to raise all international sanctions on Iran to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
They will lose the ability to take such a measure on October 18 when the United Nations resolution 2015 ends. The decision is ensuring Iran’s deal with Britain, Germany, France, the United States, Russia and China, which raised sanctions on Tehran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
The Iranian Ambassador of the United Nations, Amir Sayed Erbani, said that the “back” summons for the sanctions against Tehran would be “illegal and prior to it.”
European and Iranian diplomats gathered in November and January to discuss whether they could work to defuse regional tensions, including the nuclear program of Branan, before Trump’s return.
– With additional files from Reuters
