New Delhi, July 11 -- US President Donald Trump said he has left standing instructions for a massive military response if Iran succeeds in assassinating him, warning that Tehran would face unprecedented retaliation.

In an interview with The New York Post on Friday, Trump said, "I've left instructions - if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they've never seen before."

Trump said he has been a target of Iranian threats "for a long time" but indicated there was no new assassination plot, despite recent reports suggesting Israel had shared intelligence about a possible threat.

"No, no. Israel came up with nothing," Trump said, adding, "I've been No. 1 [on Iran's kill list] for a long time, and it's the way life is...