President Donald Trump said the military is prepared to strike Iran if Tehran attempts to assassinate him, issuing the warning as fighting resumes following the collapse of a ceasefire and the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Iran on July 11 that any attempt by the regime to assassinate him would trigger a massive U.S. military response, escalating his rhetoric after mourners at the funeral of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei displayed banners calling for Trump’s death.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that 1,000 U.S. missiles were “locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow” if Iranian authorities succeeded in killing him.
“Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one-year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran,” Trump wrote.
The president’s warning followed Khamenei’s burial July 10 at Iran’s holiest shrine. The ceremony concluded a week of funeral processions attended by a large crowd, including participants carrying banners declaring, “We Will Kill Trump.”
Khamenei was killed Feb. 28 in a joint U.S.–Israeli airstrike intended to dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program. His death triggered months of conflict, including Iranian retaliation and disruptions to commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Assembly later selected Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, to succeed him as supreme leader.
Mojtaba has pledged retaliation for his father’s killing.
“This vengeance is what our nation is demanding, and this must definitely be done,” he wrote in a July 10 post.
Trump had already identified himself as a longstanding Iranian target and said he had left the military explicit instructions for responding if the regime acted against him.
“I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s what we’re dealing with,” Trump told The New York Post on July 10. “The only thing is, I’ve left instructions—if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before.”
The threats came amid a renewed exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran after Washington accused Tehran of violating the ceasefire by attacking three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on July 7.
The Treasury Department revoked Iran’s authorization to sell oil that same day, adding economic pressure to the military response.
U.S. Central Command said July 9 that American forces had struck 90 Iranian military targets. The command said the operation was designed to weaken Iran’s capacity to attack commercial shipping and civilian mariners traveling through the strait.
Iran has retaliated against targets across the Middle East. The Iranian military said it fired 10 missiles at a U.S. command center in Jordan on July 9, according to the semi-official Fars News outlet.
Despite the renewed fighting, diplomatic contact between Washington and Tehran has continued.
Trump said in a July 10 Truth Social post that Iran had asked the United States to resume talks after the latest exchange of military strikes. He said Washington agreed to continue negotiations while making clear to Iranian officials, “in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi disputed the U.S. account of responsibility for the agreement’s collapse.
In a July 11 post on X, Araghchi accused Washington of violating the interim arrangement by revoking Iran’s authorization to sell oil and maintained that “Iran has so far kept its word.”
Trump’s latest warning places the threat of an assassination attempt alongside the administration’s other stated reasons for continued military action, including protecting commercial shipping, limiting Iran’s ability to strike regional targets and preventing further development of its military capabilities.
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