Assassination Attempt on US President Donald Trump By……

Israel passed intelligence to the US this week warning that Iran had developed a new plot to assassinate Trump, according to two sources familiar with the matter. One source described it as a fresh, specific warning; another said it adds to weeks of general intelligence chatter about potential threats to Trump.

Some US officials suspect Israel may be using the warning partly to influence Trump’s decisions on whether to escalate strikes against Iran — the report notes skepticism within the intelligence community toward Israeli reporting on this front.

Neither the source nor details of the alleged plot have been independently verified by the US, and officials said they weren’t tracking it before Israel’s alert.

The threat is tied to long-standing US concerns that Iran might target Trump in retaliation for the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani. Trump himself told reporters this week that he believes he’s now on every Iranian target list and referred to a new list ranking him as Iran’s top target.

The report also notes rising friction between Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu over diplomacy and Lebanon strikes, though the two spoke by phone Thursday and Netanyahu is expected in Washington soon.

Despite renewed strikes, US officials say backchannel diplomacy continues, with both sides still aiming for a nuclear deal by mid-August even as the USS Abraham Lincoln prepped jets Thursday night as a precaution.