The current research sought to explore the pragmatic characteristics of the speech act of threatening. Additionally, it sought to determine whether the speech act of threatening is a perlocutionary act, as suggested by Nicoloff (1989), rather Threats as Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts الرابع الجزء 37 than an illocutionary act, as suggested by Austin (1975, 107) and Searle (1968), in light of the speech acts of threatening used by the American president, Biden, and directed at the Russian president, Putin. To achieve these purposes, the illocutionary characteristics of Biden's speech acts of threatening in his speech on February 15, 2022, were examined. Similarly, the perlocutionary characteristics of Biden's threats are traced back in Putin's speech on 21 February 2022. The results indicated that the speech acts of threatening are not merely illocutionary and are not solely perlocutionary. Threatening is a unique species of speech acts, which is not similar to any other speech act. Both the illocutionary and perlocutionary characteristics of speech acts are present in this act at the same time.