Mullin Says Trump and His Family Are Iran’s ‘Target Number One’ as Tehran Tells Two Navy Officers ‘We Will Find You’
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Sunday that President Donald Trump and his family are Iran’s top target, as an Iranian embassy publicly threatened two U.S. Navy officers whose destroyer just returned from the war.
“Every single day during our presidential briefings, we receive aspirational threats from Iran. We know that President Trump — and his family — is target number one,” Mullin said on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing,” Fox News reported.
Mullin was asked about a report that Israeli intelligence had flagged a possible Iranian plot to attack Trump with explosive-laden drones. He did not confirm the report but said officials were aware of threats, according to Fox News.
Israel Hayom reported Saturday that the Mossad gave the CIA specific intelligence that Iran intends to target Trump and senior officials, citing unnamed senior Israeli and American officials. The paper said another Western intelligence service corroborated it.
The White House, the CIA and Iran have not publicly confirmed the reported plot, Iran International noted. Israel Hayom reported that Trump’s public appearances have been sharply curtailed and that some senior officials were moved to secure facilities.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on CNBC Friday that he had moved to a military base on Secret Service instructions, Fox News reported.
“Why am I going to be afraid when the brave military personnel in the Gulf, President Trump, constantly receive death threats?” he said.
‘Remember These Two Criminals’
Iran’s embassy in South Africa posted a “We will find you” message on X on Nov. 13 alongside images identifying the commanding officer and executive officer of the USS Spruance, Fox News reported.
The officers are Cmdr. Leigh R. Tate and Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey E. York. The embassy had singled them out in March, blaming them for a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran, and wrote at the time, “Remember these two criminals.”
The Spruance returned to San Diego on Nov. 13 after the longest deployment by a Navy destroyer since World War II, according to Fox News. The Navy says it fired dozens of Tomahawk missiles at Iranian targets between February and August.
“This should be setting off alarm bells in Washington, in the White House, the Pentagon, and even within CENTCOM,” Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital.
Trump warned Tehran last week against killing a senior U.S. official. “They will not exist very long, any longer,” he told radio host Hugh Hewitt, Fox News reported.
U.S. intelligence warned in October that Iranian plots against Americans abroad had reached advanced stages.
Mullin called countering drones his “number one issue” and said DHS has set up a dedicated counter-drone department. “There are holes in our counter-UAS ability to be kinetic and bring down real threats,” he said.
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