Trump Says ‘I Got Him Before He Got Me’ After Killing Iran’s Supreme Leader

“I got him before he got me,” President Donald Trump said Sunday after Iran’s supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Following an Israeli strike in Tehran as part of a major coordinated US-Israeli military offensive called “Operation Epic Fury”, other prominent Iranian leaders were killed.

“I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC News. Jonathan Carl on a phone call.

“He tried twice,” the president said of previous attempts on his life. “Well, I got him first.”

Trump called the attack “so successful” that several potential Iranian successors were also taken out.

Responding to who could be the next leader in the region, the president said, “It’s not going to be anyone we were thinking of because they’re all dead.”

Six U.S. service members have been killed so far since the latest round of hostilities over the weekend.

“This is war and you have casualties in war,” Trump told Karl, adding that the operation could last four or five weeks.

Iran has previously threatened to kill Trump after the 2020 assassination Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. In June, the Prime Minister of Israel Dr Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran made several unsuccessful attempts. Iran has denied any involvement in the assassination attempt.

However, in 2022, A Iranian video Trump’s assassination attempt was filmed while he was playing golf.

Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei dies after Israeli attack on Iran

After an Iranian proxy of Afghan descent and two American men were indicted for allegedly trying to track down and assassinate an Iranian-American critic of the ayatollah’s regime, the Justice Department revealed that Trump was also the subject of a similar assassination plot.

Farhad Shakeri, who spent 14 years in a New York state prison on robbery charges and contacted the US to create a “network of criminal associates” to “supply the IRGC with operatives” locally, was trying to kill the journalist. Messiah Alinejad.

The two were also accused of following Alinjad and turning the plates on Lodholt’s car to avoid suspicion, while then-FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned Trump as another target of the Iranian plot in a related statement on the Alinjad case.

Shakeri spoke to the FBI voluntarily from Iran, where he disclosed Attempted assassination of TrumpAccording to the New York Times.

After an IRGC meeting in October, Trump was asked to prepare a plan to kill him, and if he failed to do so, the militia predicted that Trump would lose to Kamala Harris and “be easy to kill” while out of office, Shakeri said.

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“I got him before he got me,” President Donald Trump said after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during “Operation Epic Fury.” (Majid Saidi/Getty Images; Yuri Gripas/Abaka/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump has since repeatedly warned Iran to withdraw Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Overseeing 2025 airstrikes on nuclear facilities and what the administration described as a long-term military operation to eventually force regime change.

“Our goal is to protect the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said Saturday.

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Fox News’ Charles Kritz contributed to this report.

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