{"id":42474,"date":"2026-03-04T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42474"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:04:41","slug":"us-kills-iranian-leader-of-trump-assassination-plot-pentagon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42474","title":{"rendered":"US kills Iranian leader of Trump assassination plot, Pentagon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United States military \u200csaid on Wednesday that it killed an Iranian official who headed \u200ca unit behind an alleged \u2060assassination \u200bplot against President Donald \u200bTrump but \u200cthat the target was not \u200bthe initial focus of the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leader of the unit who attempted \u2060to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and \u200ckilled. Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh,&#8221; War Secretary \u2060Pete Hegseth told \u2060a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While \u200bthat was \u200cnot the focus of the effort by any stretch of the imagination \u2014\u00a0in fact, never raised by the president or anybody else \u2014\u00a0I ensured, and others ensured, that \u2060those who were responsible for that were eventually part \u2060of the target list,&#8221; Hegseth told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Hegseth claims US is winning against Iran, says can fight as long as needed<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth did not name the individual but said the operation took place on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the US Justice Department charged an Iranian man in connection with an \u2060alleged plot ordered by \u200bthe IRGC to assassinate Trump, then US president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has denied accusations that it had targeted Trump and other US officials.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States military \u200csaid on Wednesday that it killed an Iranian official who headed \u200ca unit behind an alleged \u2060assassination \u200bplot against President Donald \u200bTrump but \u200cthat the target was not \u200bthe initial focus of the war. &#8220;The leader of the unit who attempted \u2060to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and \u200ckilled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}