Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that he would threaten to blow Iran to "smithereens" in response to the country targeting him.
"I appreciate the agencies that we've been meeting with, but we've been threatened very directly by Iran," Trump said in North Carolina during a campaign event.
"And I think you have to let them know — because the best way to do it is through the office of the president — that you do any attacks on former presidents or candidates for president, your country gets blown to smithereens, as we say," Trump said.
Iran this summer has hacked the Trump campaign and sent the internal emails to media organizations in the hopes of damaging Trump's bid to return to the White House, as well as to sow chaos in the election.
"Meanwhile, we have the president of Iran in our country this week," the former president noted. "We have large security forces guarding him, and yet they're threatening our former president."
"Around the world, our enemies are desperate to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the White House because they know I will make America great again," the Republican nominee said. "They don't want that."
"No threat will shake me," Trump said. "No enemy will intimidate me."
