Terror group issues 'legitimate target' warning to US nationals and allies in Middle East

Terror group leader Akram al-Kabi

An Iraqi terror group says that all US nationals in the Middle East will be "legitimate targets" if Donald Trump was to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader.

In recent days both Israel and Donald Trump have hinted there could be plans to assassinate the country's religious patriarch Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - who is revered and respected across the Shiite world.

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