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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - WASHINGTON — US intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump that was relayed by Israel and prompted an extraordinary clandestine maneuver that saw him secretly fly out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Citing current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence, the newspaper said CIA analysts did not consider the Israeli-provided information compelling and communicated their skepticism to Trump administration officials.
One US official described the reporting as “Israeli-derived, not US-generated, and viewed as low confidence,” according to the Post.
The intelligence concerns add a new dimension to the elaborate security measures taken when Trump departed Turkish capital Ankara following the NATO summit on July 8.
Despite the doubts over the credibility of the Israeli intelligence, Trump was moved secretly from a legacy Air Force One to a third aircraft after concerns emerged about whether a new Boeing 747-8 aircraft gifted to the US by Qatar had adequate security protections.
Trump was reportedly transported from the airport’s Air Force One aircraft to a C-32A military plane in an airport catering truck. He and a small group of aides then flew to Britain’s Mildenhall air base. The aircraft was escorted by F-16 fighter jets.
The White House did not directly address questions about the intelligence assessment. A US official said the president has faced numerous threats, including from Iran, and that all necessary measures were taken to protect him.
"As the president has said, he has faced numerous threats on his life, including ones from Iran, and every measure is taken to ensure his safety,” a US official was quoted as saying in a statement.
"The United States Secret Service’s core mission is protecting the president, which they achieved."
The CIA declined to comment, while the Israeli Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to the newspaper’s request for details.
Despite questions about the intelligence, US officials said the Secret Service ultimately decided that the potential threat warranted extraordinary precautions.
“The Secret Service has had three near misses with this president, so they’re not taking any chances,” one official told the Post.
Trump himself said Tuesday that the decision to use another aircraft was made by the Secret Service.
“It’s really just up to Secret Service. I just follow what they like to do,” he said, according to the Post. “They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety … I do what they say.”
The reported doubts have also raised questions over why Israel shared the intelligence with Washington and whether the information was intended solely as a warning or could have been aimed at influencing US policy.
According to the Post, some current and former US intelligence officials believed the Israeli reporting may have been intended in part to influence Trump’s decision-making and Washington’s approach to the region.
Israel considers Iran its most immediate regional security threat, while it has also expressed concerns about Türkiye and the increasingly close relationship between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the newspaper reported.
It “fit a broader pattern of Israeli intelligence reporting that some officials see as designed as much to shape presidential decision-making as to inform it,” a former official familiar with the matter said, according to the report.
The report also said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was briefed on both the Israeli intelligence and the Secret Service’s planned operation. According to the former official cited by the Post, Rubio nevertheless boarded the legacy Air Force One aircraft.
Another US official questioned how serious the alleged threat could have been, pointing to the tens of thousands of Turkish security personnel deployed for the NATO summit.
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