United States President Donald Trump has previously explained what would happen if Iran assassinated him.In an interview in February 2025, the 79-year-old Republican said that he has left ‘instructions’ that if the Middle Eastern nation were to assassinate him, the country should be ‘obliterated’.Trump made such a declaration after signing an executive order in the Oval Office, reaffirming a policy of maximum pressure on Iran. He said the move handed him every available tool to deal with the government in Tehran, calling the action ‘very tough on Iran’.”I’m going to sign it, but hopefully we are not going to have to use it very much,” the president said, adding that he wants to see about working out a deal with Iran so everybody ‘can live together’.

Then, when questioned about Iran and proxies threatening to assassinate him, Trump claimed: “Well, they haven’t done that, and that would be a terrible thing for them to do, not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated.”That would be the end. I’ve left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated – there won’t be anything left.”Trump went on to fault former President Joe Biden for failing to warn Iran that it would face obliteration if an assassination had taken place during his time in the White House.He continued: “And they shouldn’t be able to do it, and Biden should have said that, but he never did. I don’t know why, lack of intelligence, perhaps.”But he never said it. If that happens to a leader or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of a state that did it, that would include Iran.”He reiterated such remarks back in January of this year, warning Iran that continued assassination threats made by leaders in Tehran would be met with the country getting ‘blown up’.