Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei has rejected as false a report alleging that there was a plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump.
Rezaei made the comments in an interview broadcast Thursday by Lebanon’s Al Manar TV, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
The remarks came after Iranian state television aired a video earlier this week threatening Trump’s 20-year-old son.
Titled “Where and How Barron Trump Should Be Killed," the video claimed that Barron’s movements had been “fully monitored" and that information had been obtained about the university he attends, the vehicles accompanying him and the locations of Secret Service personnel assigned to protect him.
It also claimed that a $10 million bounty had been offered for him, though that allegation had not been independently verified.
The US Secret Service said Tuesday that it was aware of the video and was reviewing its contents.
“The US Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees," Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring said in a statement to NewsNation.
“Out of concern for operational security, we do not discuss matters of protective intelligence," Herring added.
The latest threat follows similar material targeting members of the Trump family. In July, the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a video claiming that access routes and vulnerabilities in first lady Melania Trump's security arrangements in New York had been exposed.
The New York Post also reported in late May on an alleged plot targeting Ivanka Trump.
Iranian state media have additionally made threats against the president himself. In July, a billboard displayed in Tehran's Islamic Revolution Square depicted Trump apparently lying dead in a coffin alongside the words, “We will kill Trump."
Tehran has repeatedly pledged retribution against Trump following the first-term US drone strike that eliminated Qassem Soleimani, the high-ranking general who led the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Trump has previously warned that an attempt on his life would trigger a major US response. On January 20, he said that if such an attempt occurred, “the entire country of Iran is going to get blown up. The Islamic Republic will be wiped off the face of the earth."