The comments came a day after Trump said that U.S. patience with Iran was “wearing thin” and called for the country to surrender. Trump also said that the U.S. could easily eliminate Khamenei but was currently choosing not to.
“We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding,” Trump wrote on social media. “He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.”
Trump recently rejected a plan from Israel to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader, as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to intensify.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said on Wednesday that Tehran will respond “strongly” to Washington if it becomes directly involved in Israel’s military campaign and said that Iran already considers the U.S. “complicit in what Israel is doing.”
