Trump's Secret Plane Switch Highlights Iran Assassination Threat Amid War

The ongoing US-Iran war has escalated with new reports revealing that President Donald Trump was secretly moved from Air Force One to a different aircraft in Turkey last month due to a credible Iranian assassination threat. The elaborate ruse, which involved hiding Trump in a catering truck, was prompted by intelligence that Iran had tracked his exact hotel floor and planned a missile strike. The threat followed joint US-Israeli strikes in February that killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials, leading to Iranian vows of revenge. Trump downplayed the incident, saying the Secret Service wanted him on a different plane, but critics have called for a congressional briefing, and the episode underscores the personal stakes of the conflict.