Report: Turkey Suspects Israel Fabricated Trump Assassination Plot To Derail US-Iran Diplomacy

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/08/11/report-turkey-suspects-israel-fabricated-trump-assassination-plot-to-derail-us-iran-diplomacy/

Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. The Washington Post first reported on Monday that the US thought there was […]


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Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 16d

I believe it; I can't imagine Iran wanting to get rid of trump - he's so incompetent he's basically winning the war for them.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 16d (1 reply)

That's okay, Trump started the Iran War to distract from the Epstein files. We all have our reasons.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d

Yo, we heard you like distractions so we added a distraction to distract from your distraction.

hpx9140@fedia.io · 4 pts · 16d

Didn't have bibi punking mango mussolini into hiding in a food cart on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d

Maybe it's true, maybe not, but it's entirely plausible. A good intelligence agency would pull that kind of shenanigans. And the Israeli have a good reputation in that regard. And the Orange Menace would totally fall for it, of course.