Iran, while remaining the world's number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, has other distinctions. One of those is the habit of their mouths writing checks their butts can't cash.

In one such, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has found a 2022 video posted to the Ayatollah's website, portraying a (hypothetical) attack on former president Donald Trump. The video is amateurish, resembling nothing so much as a computer game from about 1997, although it does imply a quasi-military operation aimed at the former president - presumably, according to several images and the hacked text message sent out by the operators, in revenge for Trump's ordering the un-aliving of Qasem Soleimani. 

This is pretty clearly a propaganda video intended for the Iranian people.

It's not that terrifyingly chilling. Were Iran to make an actual attempt on the former president - which isn't completely outside the bounds of possibility - they certainly wouldn't telegraph it by releasing a cheesy, amateurish video. And amateurish this is; an American teenager with an iPad could probably do better.

That being said, Iran certainly sees Donald Trump as a threat, and there are reputable reports of the Iranians possibly putting together a plan to take him out.

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Here's the thing: If Iran really did make an attempt on the life of a major American political figure, like Donald Trump, this isn't how they would go about it. There are some things to consider - things that the Secret Service had better be considering:

This video is, on the surface, chilling. But looked at with a calmer eye, it's pretty much a nothing-burger. That doesn't mean Iran doesn't harbor ill intentions toward the United States or, for that matter, toward Donald Trump. We should worry about what they may actually try, rather than what they are putting out as propaganda for internal consumption.