Iranian state television aired a video threatening Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of US President Donald Trump.
The video, titled “Where and How Barron Trump Should Be Killed," claims that Barron Trump’s movements have been “fully monitored" and that the information obtained includes the location of the university he attends, the vehicles accompanying him, and the locations of the Secret Service personnel protecting him. The video also claims that a $10 million bounty has been offered for him, although that claim had not been independently verified at the time of publication.
The broadcast comes after a similar video published in July by the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, claiming that access routes and weaknesses in Melania Trump’s security arrangements in New York had been exposed. In late May, the New York Post reported on an alleged plot to harm Ivanka Trump.
Iranian state media have also issued direct threats against President Trump himself. In July, a billboard was displayed in Tehran’s Islamic Revolution Square showing Trump apparently dead in a coffin, alongside the English-language words, “We will kill Trump."
Another event cited in the threats is the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a combined strike by the IDF and the US military. Several Iranian state media outlets linked the personal threats against Trump to the Islamic concept of “qisas," under which, they argued, the killing of the leader of the Islamic Republic creates an obligation to strike those deemed responsible.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a commentator on Iranian state television, said that qisas is the Islamic Republic’s “inalienable right." Referring to those responsible for Khamenei’s death, he said: “We will do everything in our power, and there is no international legal barrier that will stop us."
Another commentator on the state-run network, Mohsen Ghanbarian, said: “If we do not carry out qisas against Trump, if we do not punish the murderer of our leader, the current leader and the leaders of the Islamic Republic will always have to live in hiding."
Trump has previously warned that an attempt to assassinate him would result in a severe American response, saying on January 20 that in the event of such an attempt, “the entire country of Iran is going to get blown up. The Islamic Republic will be wiped off the face of the earth."