Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader

16/6/2025 6:14

President Donald Trump

vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme

Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two U.S. officials told Reuters

on Sunday.



"Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do

we're not even talking about going after the political

leadership," said one of the sources, a senior U.S.

administration official.



The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said top

U.S. officials have been in constant communications with Israeli

officials in the days since Israel launched a massive attack on

Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear program.



They said the Israelis reported that they had an

opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, but Trump waved them

off of the plan.



The officials would not say whether Trump himself

delivered the message. But Trump has been in frequent

communications with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



When asked about Reuters report, Netanyahu, in an

interview on Sunday with Fox News Channel's "Special Report With

Bret Baier," said: "There's so many false reports of

conversations that never happened, and I'm not going to get into

that."



"But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to

do, we'll do what we need to do. And I think the United States

knows what is good for the United States," Netanyahu said.



Trump has been holding out hope for a resumption of

U.S.-Iranian negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program. Talks

that had been scheduled for Sunday in Oman were canceled as a

result of the strikes.



Trump told Reuters on Friday that



"we knew everything"



about the Israeli strikes.