President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Iran, stating he would retaliate aggressively if any threats against him materialized. The statement came in response to recent threats broadcasted on Iranian state television.

During an interview with Katie Pavlich for her new show on NewNation, Trump addressed the assassination threats made against him by Iran. Pavlich inquired specifically about the danger to his life, which had been highlighted on Iranian broadcasts.

Iranian state TV recently aired footage from Trump’s July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. The broadcast ominously declared, “this time it won’t miss.”

“They shouldn’t be doing it, but I’ve made it clear,” Trump told Pavlich. “If anything ever happens, we’re prepared to respond by obliterating the entire country.”

Trump criticized his successor, President Joe Biden, implying that Biden should have taken a tougher stance against Iran for its continuous threats towards Trump and his former administration officials.

This ongoing tension traces back to the Trump administration’s decision in January 2020 to eliminate Qasem Soleimani, a high-ranking general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an action that has kept the Iranian regime antagonistic.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, now a Trump critic, was also under Iranian assassination threat.

‘Biden should have said something. You know, when they made a statement, we always said, “Why isn’t Biden saying anything?” Because he didn’t,’ Trump said. 

President Donald Trump threatened to blow up the entire country of Iran if the Islamic regime tried to make good on assassination threats during a sit-down on NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight

‘But a president has to defend a president like, if I were here and they were making that threat to somebody even, not even a president, but somebody, like they did with me, I would absolutely hit them so hard,’ the president continued. ‘But I have very firm instructions – anything happens, they’re going to wipe them off the face of this earth.’

Last week, Trump appeared to be poised to launch a military strike against the regime, who have killed thousands of civilians protesting against the Islamic government.

On Sunday, an Iranian official told Reuters that the death toll had increased to at least 5,000 people.

Iranians have been protesting since last month over a faltering economy.

On January 2, Trump said the U.S. was ‘locked and loaded’ and ready to strike Iran if the killings continued. 

But on Wednesday, the president suggested that he believed the regime’s line that they had stopped killing civilians. 

‘We’ve been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and it’s stopped and stopping, and there’s no plan for executions or an execution,’ Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office for a bill signing event that would allow whole milk into public school lunch rooms. 

The president added that if he finds out that’s not the case, he would be ‘very upset.’ 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran on Saturday 

During his hour and 45-minute-long press conference on Tuesday, marking his one-year in office for a second time, the president was asked if a military option remained on the table. 

Trump replied that ‘they were going to hang 837 people.’ 

‘We let them know if that happens, that will be a very bad day for them, and they decided not to do it. They didn’t hang the people. I can’t tell you what’s going to happen in the future, but supposedly they’re taking that off the table,’ he said.

‘So we’re just gonna have to see what happens with Iran,’ Trump said.