The FBI claims an Iranian spy hired a hitman to kill senior members of Donald Trump’s administration, while threats of an assassination plot against the former president have been deemed “credible”.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said he remains under Secret Service protection following a foiled assassination plot against several senior US government officials orchestrated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

US intelligence officers told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Tehran is hiring hit men around the world and in America to avenge the 2020 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, including a “credible threat” against Trump, who authorised the air strike that killed the terrorist mastermind…”