Donald Trump said yesterday that Iran should be threatened with destruction if the country threatens anyone of the participants in the US presidential elections, after he was informed by the intelligence about threats against him coming from Tehran, reported France Press.
"If I were president, I would inform the country making the threats, in this case Iran: if you do anything to harm this man, we will destroy your largest cities and the country itself,'' the Republican said. candidate at a campaign rally yesterday.
The former president said on Tuesday that his life was under direct threat from Iran, amid intensifying hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese Islamist movement "Hezbollah", an ally of Tehran.
Trump's campaign team said it had been briefed on "specific" death threats against the Republican presidential candidate.
In the summer, Iran rejected such claims, calling them "malicious", AFP recalls.