Iran has hatched yet another assassination plot targeting President Donald Trump — and it was Israeli intelligence that tipped off the United States to the regime's murderous plans.
The country Democrats keep trying to abandon is the one keeping our president alive.
The intelligence warning came amid an already escalating military confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, with American strikes ongoing and the broader Hormuz conflict intensifying by the day. Iranian officials, per the Journal's reporting, have denied previous assassination allegations, which is roughly as convincing as a carjacker denying he likes cars.
This isn't the first time Tehran has tried this. The Justice Department charged an individual in 2024 in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting Trump. That plot traced back to Iran's desire for revenge after the 2020 U.S. strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force. Trump ordered that strike. Iran has never forgiven him for it.
Trump, speaking with reporters in Ankara, Turkey, was characteristically unbothered. "I'm on every list," he said. He also warned Tehran directly of "additional military action" if the regime continued its provocations. No strategic ambiguity. No carefully workshopped State Department language. Just a president telling a hostile government exactly what happens next.
The White House, Israeli officials, and Iranian officials have not publicly confirmed all the details of the alleged assassination plot. That's standard procedure when intelligence sources and methods are involved. What's not standard is the deafening silence from the same political class that spent years insisting Donald Trump was an existential threat to democracy.
Think about the contrast for a moment. We've had four years of breathless coverage about January 6th — congressional hearings, primetime specials, commemorative programming. Every lawmaker who was within six blocks of the Capitol that day has written a memoir about their trauma. But a foreign government actively plotting to murder the sitting President of the United States? The coverage has been, let's say, restrained.
Iran can't beat us on the battlefield. Their navy is outmatched. Their air defenses have been systematically dismantled. Their proxies are cut off financially. So they go for the coward's route — a murder-for-hire assassination plot. It's the geopolitical equivalent of flipping the board when you're losing at chess.
Meanwhile, Israel — a nation roughly the size of New Jersey, surrounded by hostile neighbors, subjected to nonstop diplomatic hectoring from American progressives — is the ally that delivered the intelligence. The same Israel that campus protesters want us to boycott. The same Israel that a growing faction of the Democratic Party treats as a pariah state.
The previous ceasefire arrangement with Iran appeared to have broken down. Diplomacy, as it turns out, only works when the other side fears the consequences of walking away from it. Iran stopped fearing consequences sometime around 2015. They appear to be recalibrating that assessment now.