An assassination plot against Trump by Iran is the latest attempt to target Americans on US soil.

Tehran's latest attempt to assassinate former President Trump is part of a series of lethal plots against American officials and Iranian American dissidents.

Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, has placed bounties on the heads of Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton for their roles in the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani in 2020.

The U.S. government claims that Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of more than 600 American military personnel in the Middle East.

On Tuesday, Planet Chronicle Digital reported that the Department of Homeland Security received intelligence from a human source regarding the planned Iranian assassination of Trump. However, it is not yet clear if this plot is connected to the assassination attempt on Trump that was carried out by Thomas Crooks in Pennsylvania.

Since 2020, Khamenei has been described as being determined to assassinate Trump after the former president ordered the killing of Soleimani in Iraq. In 2022, the Middle East Media Research Institute published an Iranian-made animation video depicting the assassination of Trump by the Islamic Republic, which was uploaded to Khamenei's official website.

Over the past four decades, the Islamic Republic has employed various tactics, including lone-wolf radicals, terror proxies, and transnational criminal syndicates, to carry out acts of terror, kidnapping, and assassination abroad across four continents, according to Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who spoke to Planet Chronicle Digital.

Tehran has learned that terrorism provides it with a deniable military option that most states will ignore or treat as a law-enforcement matter. The regime has integrated this threat into its asymmetric arsenal, which also includes long-range strike capabilities, maritime harassment, and cyberattacks.

In 2023, U.S. Federal prosecutors charged three organized crime members linked to Iran's regime with the plot to kidnap and murder Iranian American dissident Masih Alinejad in 2021. Alinejad opposes Iran's clerical regime and campaigns for women's rights in Iran and the elimination of the mandatory hijab. Iran's theocratic state also placed former U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook on its assassination list.

In 2023, the Iranian regime intensified its efforts to assassinate Americans, including the former commander of the United States Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, as reported by Planet Chronicle Digital.

In an interview on Iranian regime-controlled TV last year, General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' aerospace unit, stated, "We're looking to kill Trump." He further added, "Pompeo, McKenzie, and military commanders who gave the order to kill Soleimani should be killed."

In 2009, the regime dispatched operatives to the U.S. to assassinate Jamshid Sharmahd for opposing Khamenei's Islamic regime. Sharmahd was kidnapped by regime henchmen in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and sentenced to death on trumped-up charges on Tuesday.

UANI CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and Senior Advisor Norman Roule stated that "UANI has long warned about weakened American deterrence against Iran's regime. The Islamic Republic's reported plot to assassinate the Republican presidential nominee and a former U.S. president on American soil is both shocking and unsurprising."

The UANI representatives expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S.'s response to Iranian assassination plots, stating that while there have been strong press statements, symbolic sanctions, enhanced security protocols, and indictments, these actions are not enough.

The Islamic Republic rejected any involvement in a plot to assassinate Trump, and Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani emphasized that such claims were "politically motivated."

Kanani stated that the Islamic Republic of Iran intends to prosecute Trump for his direct involvement in the murder of General Qasem Soleimani.

According to Wallace and Roule, if the press reports are accurate and this is a serious threat, the United States must convey to the Iranians that American military strikes are a possible response. The lack of robust action against Tehran by the U.S. government and its allies has led Iran to continue to execute these plans in both the U.S. and Europe. If we fail to act, they will become a reality.

The U.S. should revoke the visa of Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who is currently in New York for meetings at the United Nations.