Original title: Iran's response to trump's assassination rumor: assassinating foreign leaders is a "symbol of the United States and Israel"
[global network report] Iran wants to assassinate US President trump? According to "Russia today" (RT) report on the 2nd, said khatibzad, spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry, denied the content of the report that Iran wanted to assassinate trump on the 1st local time, and said that "the cowardly act of assassinating foreign leaders is a sign of the United States and Israel".
According to the report, the statement that Iran wants to assassinate trump comes from an article in the Washington times. According to the article, Iranian President Rouhani issued a death threat to trump, saying that the latter "will die soon".
This sentence is based on a speech by Rouhani earlier this week. In his speech, Rouhani said that the world would soon get rid of "trumpism" and that "this murderer's mission is coming to an end and he will enter the dustbin of history".
Rt said that the Washington Times and other media believed that Rouhani seemed to predict that Trump's life would end soon.
In response, said khatibzad, spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry, responded in a tweet on January 1: "the cowardly act of assassinating foreign leaders is a sign of the United States and Israel; it is not Iranian."
In addition, another Iranian official also denied the content of the report, saying that what Rouhani said clearly refers to trump's "political" career.
On January 3, 2020, the United States launched an attack in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, killing Sulaimani, commander of the "Holy City Brigade" subordinate to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard. As the anniversary of Sulaimani's death approaches, relations between Iran and the United States are becoming more tense. According to Iranian media reports, on December 16, when Khamenei attended the Conference Commemorating the first anniversary of Sulaimani's martyrdom, he once again said that Iran would let the murderer pay the price.