Washington DC, Aug. 13 -- US intelligence officials had low confidence in an Iranian threat against US President Donald Trump before he was secretly moved to an alternate aircraft while departing Turkey after the NATO Summit last month, according to a report by The Washington Post.

The alleged assassination threat was reportedly relayed to the CIA by Israel, but agency analysts did not consider the intelligence compelling and communicated their reservations to officials in the Trump administration, The Washington Post reported.

One US official described the reports as "Israeli-derived, not US-generated, and viewed as low confidence," according to The Washington Post.

Despite the doubts over the credibility of the intelligence, the US S...