Iranian state television broadcast a video claiming a $10 million bounty had been placed on Barron Trump and purporting to track the 20-year-old son of President Donald Trump, Euronews reported.
Media affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released the footage, which aired on Channel 3 of Iranian state television. Its title asks where and how Barron Trump should be killed.
The video purported to identify his university and reveal details about his escort vehicles and Secret Service protection. It alleged that his movements had been “fully monitored” and put the purported bounty at $10 million (€8.5 million).
The broadcast also alleged that someone described as “a girl” bypassed Secret Service protection, met privately with Barron Trump and passed information to the program’s producers. A separate claim said he communicated privately by voice and text on Xbox while away from his security detail.
Euronews said it could not independently verify the bounty or any of the video’s claims about surveillance, access to Barron Trump or private communications.
The latest broadcast followed a July video from the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency about Melania Trump’s movements in New York and alleged weaknesses in her security. Euronews also cited a late May New York Post report about an alleged plot targeting Ivanka Trump.
Earlier threats against Trump
Iranian state media have also broadcast direct threats against the president, according to Euronews. A billboard displayed in Tehran’s Islamic Revolution Square in July showed Trump apparently dead in a coffin alongside the English words “We will kill Trump.”
Another video purported to map Trump’s motorcade route between airports and his homes in Florida and New York. The U.S. Secret Service confirmed that it was reviewing the footage.
Euronews described two deaths as triggers for the threatening rhetoric. The first was the January 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, at Baghdad International Airport.
Trump authorized that operation during his first term. Iranian officials vowed retaliation after Soleimani’s killing and have repeatedly renewed those pledges, according to the report.
The second and more recent trigger, as described by Euronews, was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28. The outlet called those strikes the opening attack of the ongoing war.
According to Euronews, some figures in Iranian state-run media have framed the threats through qisas, the Islamic legal concept of retributive justice. They argued that Khamenei’s killing created an obligation to kill whoever was deemed responsible.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a commentator on Iranian state television, described qisas as the Islamic Republic’s “inalienable right.”
Speaking about those he held responsible for Khamenei’s death, Larijani said, “We will do whatever is in our power, and there is no international legal barrier to stop us.”
Another regular on the state broadcaster, Mohsen Ghanbarian, also called for retaliation against Trump. He warned that Iran’s current and future leaders would otherwise have to live in hiding.
Trump has warned that an attempt on his life would bring a severe U.S. response. On Jan. 20, he said “the whole country of Iran will blow up” if someone tried to kill him.
He added that he had ordered the U.S. to “wipe the Islamic Republic off the face of the Earth” if the threats were carried out.
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