Iran rules out nuclear inspections while under threat from US

President Donald Trump warned Thursday that Iran would “not exist very long” if the regime assassinated a senior U.S. official, amid reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was relocated to a military base following threats against his life linked to Tehran.

“If the Iranians kill a senior American official, what will happen to them?” Hugh Hewitt asked Trump during an interview Thursday on Salem News.

“They will not exist very long any longer,” Trump replied.

Bessent was moved from his Washington, D.C., home to a military base because of threats against his life linked to Iran.

“Threats against Sec. Bessent reached more than an advanced stage, which is why he and his family made the move,” an official had told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

A Treasury Department spokesperson also said Bessent will “not be deterred by the Iranian regime’s threats.” 

A manager of a Proxy Delhaize store disposes of fresh and frozen spoiled produce following a refrigeration outage in Maleizen, Overijse, Belgium, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. Credit: Wiktor Dabkowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Belgian ministers publicly clashed over disagreements about Iran’s role in cyberattacks that devastated European grocery stores after targeting industrial freezers last week.

The country’s Interior Minister Bernard Quintin claimed Iran was “very likely” behind the cyberattacks, but Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot said there was insufficient evidence point the finger at the Islamic Republic.

“There was enough evidence from our security services for me to say that Iran is very likely behind the cyberattacks we have seen targeting our shops,” Quintin told a Belgian news outlet Thursday.

Prévot, however, demurred, claiming that Belgium’s federal prosecutor is still investigating the incident and that officially attributing the attack to a foreign actor must be done through the Belgian Foreign Ministry.

“The information currently available to us is insufficient to officially hold Iran responsible,” he said in a statement.

The cyberattack raised the temperatures in freezers in grocery stores across Belgium as well as a host of other European nations. It was the second such attack on European freezers after France suffered a similar incident weeks earlier.