India, July 12 -- US President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he had issued standing instructions for the American military to strike Iran "at levels they've never seen before" if Tehran carries out its long-standing threats to assassinate him.

His remarks came as funeral ceremonies for Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw mourners holding posters and banners calling for the deaths of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Trump wrote on his social media platform on Saturday that Iran had threatened "to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate" him. He added that 1,000 "missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands m...