Trump’s chilling Iran threat, says he won’t kill leader ‘for now’

Email Middle East tensions have ramped up after Donald Trump says the US knows where Iran’s supreme leader is ‘hiding’ in a warning that he will be ‘taken out’ if any Americans are killed. Follow updates.

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