Trump vows any Iranian attack to respond "a thousand times more powerful"

Yesterday evening, US President Donald Trump warned Iran against launching any attack on the United States, promising that the US response to it would be "a thousand times stronger", after media reports that Tehran had planned to assassinate an American ambassador in retaliation for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.

Trump said in a tweet on the social networking site "Twitter" that "any attack by Iran, regardless of its form, against the United States will respond with a response to Iran that will be a thousand times stronger."

The reaction of the US President came following press reports that Iran had drawn up a plan to "assassinate" the US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, who is close to Trump, with information ridiculed by Tehran, stressing that it was "baseless."

And US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that he takes "very seriously" information that Iran has drawn up a plot to "assassinate" an American ambassador, with information ridiculed by Tehran, confirming that it is "baseless."

The US Politico news site quoted two unidentified US officials as saying that the intelligence services believe that the Iranian government is planning to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, who is close to President Donald Trump.

The website quoted its sources as saying that this plan was discovered by Washington in the spring and its features became more accurate in recent weeks, indicating that Tehran had planned to assassinate Ambassador Marx in revenge for the killing of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by order of Trump in January by an American air strike.

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