Trump says missiles aimed at Iran if Tehran targets US president

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had ordered the military to be prepared to launch strikes against Iran if the Iranian government carried out or attempted an assassination of the president.”1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to follow immediately should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!,” he said in a Truth Social post.

“Orders have already been given, and the US Military is ready, willing, and able, for one year, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran.”
Also Read: US markets rise for second straight week; SK Hynix’s listing steals the showThe US issued new Iran-related sanctions on Friday targeting a key financier for Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and 13 other individuals and entities, following Tehran’s resumed attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the Treasury Department said.

The sanctions took aim at Ali Ansari, an Iranian banker and businessman based in Dubai who had previously been sanctioned by Britain for his role in financially supporting the activities of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and other entities, the Treasury said.

Treasury said Ansari had diverted publicly funded wealth into an extensive overseas portfolio of real estate and commercial holdings to enrich himself, government elites and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also targeted three Iran-based exchange houses and foreign “front companies” that it said moved billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks, using layers of shell companies to obscure the government’s illicit activity.