Iran told Biden administration it won’t try to kill President-elect Trump: report

In a rare assurance from the Biden administration last month, Iran promised not to kill Donald Trump in a secret exchange aimed at easing tensions, US officials told the Wall Street Journal, according to a report on Friday.

The assurances reportedly came in a written message to the administration on October 14, after the White House said in September that it would consider any attempt on Trump’s life a national security threat that would reportedly “be considered an act of war.”

IRAN DENIED IMPLICATION IN TRUMP’S ASSASSINATION PLOT BASED ON DOJ REPORT: ‘BAD HEAVEN’

The Justice Department last week released an indictment in Tehran detailing a plot by an Iranian agent to assassinate the former president in a campaign.

The allegations come after a Pakistani man involved in an assassination plot in Iran was charged by federal prosecutors in August with plotting to kill Trump.

Fox News Digital could not immediately reach the White House for comment on how it would operate following the department’s lawsuits last week.

Iran has long said it will seek revenge for the 2020 assassination of its top military commander and head of Iran’s Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, who was killed after President Trump ordered US forces to kill him in Iraq.

Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani (C) attends a meeting between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (not seen) and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, Iran on September 18, 2016. (Press Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

IRAN DENIED IMPLICATION IN TRUMP’S ASSASSINATION PLOT BASED ON DOJ REPORT: ‘BAD HEAVEN’

Soleimani has since been called a hero and a martyr.

In response to news that Iran has since promised not to assassinate the president-elect, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations told Fox News Digital, “We do not issue public statements on the details of official messages exchanged between the two countries.”

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has long declared its commitment to pursue the killing of Martyr Soleimani through legal and judicial means, while adhering to the accepted principles of international law,” the Mission said.

Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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The White House has not publicly commented on the report, and Fox News Digital could not immediately reach Trump’s transition team for the president-elect’s reaction to it.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, appeared to dismiss the Justice Department’s allegations, calling the allegations “third-rate jokes” earlier this week.