Revenge assassination plot that could still push world to the brink

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : It was not the only plot to assassinate Trump during the US election but, had it succeeded, it could have changed the world more than any other event of the past six months.
43% : Now that Trump is headed for the White House once more, one can only wonder what response the Iranian attempt on his life will provoke.
41% : Trump celebrates his election victory on Wednesday morning with wife Melania and 18-year-old son BarronTrump rises from the stage with his fist in the air after a separate assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July
39% : As one former staffer told Politico, reimposing sanctions are 'a day one foreign policy priority' for Trump.
32% : Days later, Iran's plot to kill Trump on US soil was revealedPictures released by the Justice Department after the thwarted attempt on Trump's lifeThe US Department of Justice has released pictures to do with Trump's assassination attemptHad the plot succeeded, it would have sent shockwaves not just through US politics but around the world, possibly dragging America directly into the war already raging between close ally Israel, Iran's proxy network, and the puppet-masters in Tehran.
32% : Shakeri allegedly told the IRGC that killing Trump would cost a lot of money, and they responded 'we have already spent a lot of money...
28% : Read More Revealed: Iran plot to kill Trump was in revenge for US strike that killed military chief SoleimaniThe real reason for the plot, the FBI says, was as revenge for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani, head of the IRGC's feared Quds Force who was blown to bits in a US airstrike on Baghdad Airport back in January 2020.
28% : When the IRGC asked him to target Trump, it was this network he turned to.
27% : But, as the court documents reveal, the IRGC expected Trump to lose.
23% : Trump ordered the strike amidst spiralling tensions between US forces in Iraq and Iran-backed proxy groups that had already killed an American contractor in a rocket attack on the Iraqi capital.
20% : Trump was no friend of Tehran during his first term, ripping up the nuclear deal signed by predecessor Barack Obama - which gave sanctions relief in return for not developing a nuclear bomb - and pursuing a 'maximum pressure' campaign instead.
20% : Trump has been a target of Iran assassination threats since he ordered the strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the brutal Iranian Quds ForcesPictures released by the DOJ show the cache of weapons the suspected hitmen had at their disposalPictures released by DOJ about the thwarted assassination attemptThey traveled to Fairfield University in Connecticut, where the individual was set to appear earlier this year, and also stalked her home in BrooklynIndeed, Shakeri was told that, if he couldn't have Trump killed by October 14, he should wait until after voting was finished because he would be easier to get once out of power.
18% : Read More Iranian assassin who plotted to kill Donald Trump is on the looseOn the face of it, it would be easy to assume Iran's motivation for attempting to kill Trump last month was out of fear of what his impending election would mean for the Iranian regime.

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