Trump Responds to WSJ Report He Approved Attack Plan Targeting Iran

Earlier this week, Trump suggested that U.S. intelligence knows where Iranian leader Ali Khamenei is located and could kill him in an airstrike.

(L–R) Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

​President Donald Trump on June 19 responded to a report from the Wall Street Journal a day earlier that claimed he had privately approved a U.S. attack plan for Iran but withheld the final order to do so.

“The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!” he wrote in a post on Truth Social on the morning of June 19.