Benjamin Netanyahu recently on Fox News: "Tehran has identified US President Donald Trump as a threat to its nuclear program and has actively worked to assassinate him. They want to kill him. He is enemy number one. He killed Qasem Soleimani. He has made it very clear, including now: 'You cannot have nuclear weapons, which means you cannot enrich uranium.' He has been very forceful, so he is enemy number one for them."

Donald Trump issued a warning in February 2025, saying he has left instructions to "obliterate" Iran if it attempts to assassinate him. "If they did that, they would be obliterated," Trump said while signing an executive order focused on increasing pressure on Tehran. "I’ve left instructions—if they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left."