CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Israel's claims of Iranian threat to Trump: Report

Middle East Eye·August 13, 2026Politics

CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Israel's claims of Iranian threat to Trump: Report US intelligence officials were sceptical of an alleged Iranian assassination threat against Donald Trump that was relayed by Israel, sources told The Washington Post. The threat was relayed by the Israeli government to the CIA, but analysts had doubts about the credibility of the information and conveyed their thoughts to the Trump administration, one official indicated. Another official described the reports of threats against the US president's life as "Israeli-derived, not U.

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