Iran tried to kill Pompeo in 2022. Trump tightened security

Iran orchestrated the assassination of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a Paris hotel in 2022, and Donald Trump was warned by US authorities in September before the election that the country had re-hired professional teams that were active in the country. The stories are, reports the Washington Post, published in a book about the 2024 presidential campaign , which will be released soon.

At issue is the book “How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America”, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in which the authors write about the threats to the security of Donald Trump, the politicians closest to him and how these circumstances forced changes.

In addition to the attempted assassination of Trump, the book states that the threats from Iran created an increase in fear and anxiety among the team, to the point that the campaign itself was changed, starting with the agenda and travel arrangements of the then US presidential candidate. The book also states that, although the authorities are investigating whether there are links between the attacks on Trump during the campaign and Iran, no such link has been revealed.

The authors say that Iranian assassins attempted to kill senior US officials at least three times in the three years before Trump's re-election, with the latest attempt being the attempt involving Mike Pompeo, when he was in a hotel in Paris and was discovered by Iran. The book, which does not provide further details, states that he narrowly escaped.

Pompeo himself, in his 2023 book “Never Give an Inch,” wrote that a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps tried to kill him — and that the reward was $1 million — and that he also allegedly plotted to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton. At the time, Pompeo made clear that this was a threat made to several American officials and families, who “appear on Iran’s kill list.”

It is recalled that, in January, the US leader revoked the government's security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top adviser, Brian Hook, which was granted to them when they were threatened by Iran itself after taking uncompromising positions on the country during Donald Trump's first term in the White House.