Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence about Iran’s assassination threats, his campaign said.
The Republican presidential candidate was informed “of Iran’s real and specific threats to assassinate him in order to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” the campaign said in a statement.
The ministry did not provide further details on the allegations and it was not immediately clear whether the threats it was referring to were new or had been reported previously.
The Iranian government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Tehran has previously denied U.S. allegations of interference in American affairs.
Trump posted on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, that there were “major death threats from Iran.”
“Iran has already made moves that have not worked, but it will try again.”
An attack on him was a “death wish on the part of the attacker,” he said, and thanked Congress for approving more funding for the Secret Service.
“Intelligence officials have identified that these ongoing, coordinated attacks have intensified in recent months,” Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said in the statement.
“Law enforcement officials from all agencies are working to ensure that President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference,” he added.
The BBC has contacted the US office of the director of national intelligence for comment.
The case comes after Mr Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13, when he was wounded and another person was killed in a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania. No motive has been determined and the investigation remains ongoing.
In the days that followed, US media reported that Iranian officials had received information about an alleged Iranian plot against the former president. Iranian officials at the time dismissed the allegations as “malicious,” CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reported.
“If they ‘assassinate President Trump,’ which is always a possibility, I hope America will wipe Iran off the face of the Earth. If that doesn’t happen, America’s leaders will be seen as ‘ballless’ cowards!” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at the time.
On September 15, a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle sticking out of a fence at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The agent opened fire as Mr. Trump was playing golf.
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There is no evidence that Iran is involved in either of these cases.
Last month, the Trump campaign said some of its internal communications were hacked and suggested he was being targeted by Iranian agents.
In 2022, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was charged by the United States with plotting to kill Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.
The US Justice Department said Shahram Poursafi tried to pay $300,000 (£224,000) to individuals in the US to carry out the murder, in retaliation for the US strike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
