Israel Shared Intelligence With U.S. on Iran Threat to Trump; U.S. Officials Had Not Been Aware

Israel shared intelligence with the United States indicating that Iran was considering a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, said U.S. officials had not previously been aware of the specific intelligence.

The intelligence represented a potential escalation in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran. Iran has repeatedly vowed to avenge the January 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after returning from the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday, President Trump said, “They want to take out the U.S. leader—me. ” The White House referred inquiries about the reported intelligence to Trump’s public remarks but did not otherwise comment.

The Israeli embassy in Washington declined to comment. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Thursday and agreed to continue close coordination between Washington and Jerusalem.

The report comes amid renewed tensions between the United States and Iran following the collapse of a ceasefire and the resumption of hostilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz, after a series of Israeli and American military operations targeting Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure.

U.S. officials have previously disclosed multiple Iranian-linked assassination plots targeting Trump and other former senior American officials.

In November 2024, the U.S. Justice Department charged an Iranian-linked operative with directing a murder-for-hire plot against then-president-elect Trump. In March 2026, a federal jury convicted a Pakistani national with alleged ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of participating in a separate assassination conspiracy targeting Trump and other senior U.S.