Iranian state TV makes assassination threat to Trump saying 'next time the bullet won't miss'

The US and Iran have long been feuding, but tensions may have just been ramped up after a threat was made on Donald Trump’s life.

Iran has been warning of retaliation against Trump since he began his first term of presidency back in 2017, and greenlit the drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani at the start of 2020.

Since then, commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have vowed payback and even previously suggest that Trump may be a target. As well as this, state television has aired symbolic threats or warnings against the US tied to this promise.

However, in a recently aired segment on state TV, the nation ramped up the rhetoric.

The segment, which aired on Wednesday (January 14), showed an image of Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents following the 2024 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Most alarmingly, it added that ‘this time, [the bullet] won’t miss’.

A correspondent for i24 News and The Jerusalem Post, Amichai Stein, shared the post on X with a translation from Farsi.

This comes as Iran deals with mass protest across the country as anti-government demonstrations started taking place since December last year.

So far, it is believed that over 18,000 people have been detained, and over 2,400 protestors have died.

Iran's currency, the rial, collapsed, and many citizens have been calling for political reform since the economic uncertainty.

Trump has also warned that the US would intervene in the situation.

Speaking with CBS on January 13 Trump said that his government would ‘take very strong action [if] peaceful protestors’ were executed by the country.

He said: “We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen. And you know, if they want to have protests, that’s one thing, when they start killing thousands of people, and now you’re telling me about hanging.

"We’ll see how that works out for them. It’s not going to work out good."

IRAN STATE TV AIRS THREAT AGAINST TRUMP“: This time, the bullet won’t miss.” pic.twitter.com/rFIYjBrV8F

— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) January 14, 2026

Trump has since said that he has been told on ‘good authority’ that the plans for executions in Iran have now been brought to a halt. However, he did not give further details on how the US knew this.

When asked if US military action was now off the table, he responded vaguely stating that the nation will watch and see what the process is.

The speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, has warned against the US taking military action however.

In a televised address, he said: “In the event of an attack on Iran, both the occupied territory and all American military centrers, bases and ships in the region will be our legitimate targets.