Iran issued a sickening threat against President Trump Wednesday, broadcasting a picture of the commander in chief during the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt — with the words “This time it will not miss the target.”

The ominous warning was aired on Iranian state-run TV, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

It marks Tehran’s most direct threat yet against Trump, following his repeated threats that the US will strike the country if it continues its brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.

The image of a bloodied-Trump appeared to be taken from a pro-government rally in Iran, which has been allowed to air despite nationwide blackouts over the protests against the regime. 

Trump was infamously the target of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he was shot in the ear by gunman Thomas Crooks. 

Iran has made threats to kill Trump in the past, including a 2022 video posted by the regime depicting an assassination attempt on the president at his Mar-a-Lago golf course prior to the 2024 election. 

The video resurfaced following the arrest of would-be assassin Ryan Routh, who was arrested while trying to take aim at Trump on the same golf course. 

The Justice Department also said that in 2024, the US thwarted an Iranian-led plot to kill Trump after arresting Farhad Shakeri, who was allegedly tasked by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to murder the president for the regime, according to court documents.  

Along with the anti-Trump signs, those attending the latest pro-government rallies in Iran were heard shouting, “Death to America!” as they vowed their support for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 

The pro-regime rallies are meant to try and undermine the widespread protests against Tehran that have carried on since Dec. 28 over the nation’s failing economy. 

The protests have triggered a brutal crackdown on dissent, with more than 2,500 people killed since the demonstrations began, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, with thousands more arrested. 

Tensions between Tehran and Washington are reaching fever pitch over the protests, with Trump warning that a military operation was on the table over the attack on the protesters. 

After canceling negotiations with Iran this week, Trump said Tuesday that the US was willing to take “very strong action” against the Islamic Republic if the scheduled executions of arrested protesters go through. 

“We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen,” Trump told “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil. 

“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,” he added. “It’s not going to work out good.” 

Officials in Tehran, meanwhile, have said that it would attack American troops in the region and even Israel if the US strikes Iran.

Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Khamenei, warned Trump directly on X that Iran was ready to attack, as evident by last year’s strike on the Al Udeid US airbase in Qatar. 

“The President of America, who repeatedly mentions the futile aggression against Iran’s nuclear centers, would do better to also refer to the plowing of the American Al Udeid base by Iranian missiles,” Shamkhani wrote on X.

Iranian Parliament Speaker  Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf also ramped up his threats, telling lawmakers that Tehran was ready to “set the region on fire” in the face of possible American intervention. 

Similar warnings from top Iranian officials have since triggered orders for some personnel at Al Udeid and other bases across the Middle East to begin evacuating, officials told Reuters. 

Troops were also removed from Al Udeid prior to joint US-Israel strikes on Iran during a 12-day war between the Islamic Republic and the Jewish state last year.

The warning signs of war between the US and Iran have also caused global powers to chime in, with Tehran’s allies in Moscow warning America to avoid an attack on the Islamic Republic. 

“If the White House decides on aggression against Tehran, it will be Washington’s gravest mistake,” said Leonid Slutsky, who heads the International Affairs Committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament, according to the state-run TASS news agency. 

Slutsky suggested the US was attempting to intervene in Iran over the nation’s oil, similar to the actions that saw American troops arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. 

“In its oil frenzy, the United States is prepared to blow up not only the commodities markets … but also to effectively destabilise the entire region,” the Russian official added.