US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirms reports that Israeli intelligence warned the US about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump.By World Israel News StaffUS Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has confirmed that Israeli intelligence warned Washington about an alleged Iranian plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, offering the first public confirmation from a senior American official that the intelligence was shared.Huckabee said Israel had provided the information to Trump and other US officials during the past week.“There was a very specific plot that was designed to take out President Trump,” Huckabee told Fox News on Saturday.The ambassador did not disclose who was allegedly involved, how advanced the plan was or where an attack was believed to be under consideration. The White House has similarly declined to publish details of the intelligence.The warning was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter as saying Israel believed Iran was considering a fresh operation against the president.Huckabee said the reported plan should be viewed as part of Iran’s long-running hostility toward Washington rather than as an isolated development.“This is a longstanding ‘death to America’ chant they’ve had,” he said. “They really haven’t changed.”The confirmation came amid renewed fighting between the United States and Iran and repeated public threats against Trump during funeral ceremonies for former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Mourners in Tehran, Mashhad and other Iranian cities carried banners reading “We will kill Trump” and issued calls for revenge against the American president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has also vowed retaliation for the death of his father, who was killed during the opening strikes of the 2026 war.“This revenge is the will of our nation and must certainly be carried out,” Khamenei said in a message broadcast by Iranian state television.Although Huckabee described the information as relating to a specific assassination plot, other US officials have offered a more cautious account.Two officials cited by Israeli television said the intelligence involved discussions among Iranian figures about the possibility of killing Trump, rather than a fully developed operation with an identified attacker, location and timetable.The officials reportedly said Israel had passed similar warnings to Washington during the previous year.Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not publicly address the latest allegation.Trump himself initially appeared to dismiss the suggestion that Israel had uncovered something new.“Israel came up with nothing,” he told the New York Post on Friday.He nevertheless said Tehran had sought to kill him for years and claimed he had issued instructions for overwhelming retaliation if an attack succeeded.“I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” Trump said.Trump followed those remarks with a Truth Social post warning that 1,000 US missiles were “locked and loaded” and aimed at Iran, with thousands more available if the Iranian government attempted to assassinate him.He said orders had been issued for the military to remain prepared for at least one year to “completely decimate and destroy” targets across Iran.The latest warning is consistent with a documented Iranian campaign to target American officials and Iranian dissidents abroad, particularly those connected to the January 2020 US drone strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.Trump authorized that strike during his first term and has remained the most prominent target of Iranian calls for revenge.The US Justice Department said in November 2024 that an IRGC-linked asset had been instructed to develop an assassination plan against Trump. According to federal prosecutors, Farhad Shakeri was told to prepare a plan to surveil and kill Trump but remained in Iran.In a separate case, a federal jury convicted Asif Merchant in March 2026 of murder-for-hire and attempting to commit an act of terrorism.Prosecutors said Merchant, a trained operative working for the IRGC, traveled to the United States to arrange political assassinations and met people he believed were hired killers but who were actually undercover law-enforcement officers.The Justice Department has also charged an IRGC member with attempting to arrange the assassination of former national security adviser John Bolton.Prosecutors said the operation was likely intended as retaliation for Soleimani’s death.Iran has additionally been accused of targeting former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former Iran envoy Brian Hook, Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad and other critics of the Islamic Republic.The post Huckabee confirms Israel gave Trump heads up on Iranian assassination plot appeared first on World Israel News.