Secret Service on High Alert After Iranian State Broadcaster Airs Menacing Hit Video Targeting Barron Trump

Iranian state television has broadcast a video purporting to track the movements of Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of President Donald Trump, and alleging that a £7.3m ($10m) bounty has been placed on his life.

The roughly three-minute segment, aired on Channel 3 of Iran's state broadcaster and produced by media linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, carries the English-language title 'Where to kill Barron Trump?!'.

The US Secret Service has confirmed it is aware of the footage and is treating it as a potential threat. It is the first video devoted specifically to the president's youngest son, though he had already been named directly in an earlier broadcast threatening the first lady.

Video Claims To Track Movements and Security Detail

The footage purports to show the location of Barron Trump's university, the routes taken by his escort vehicles and the positioning of his Secret Service detail, claiming his movements have been 'fully monitored'.

Barron Trump, who turned 20 in March, studies at New York University's Stern School of Business. None of the surveillance claims in the video, including its assertion of a bounty, could be independently verified at the time of broadcast.

The video goes further, alleging that a 'girl' previously found a way past his security detail, sat with him during a private meeting and passed information to the programme's makers, and claiming he communicates privately through voice and text messages on Xbox, away from his protective detail.

US Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring told media that the agency is 'aware of the video and investigates anything perceived as a threat' toward those it protects, though he declined to discuss specifics, citing operational security.

As of publication, the White House had not issued a formal response to the broadcast; reports said it had approached the administration for comment. Melania Trump and her family continue to receive round-the-clock protective security, a posture that has not changed despite the repeated Iranian threats.

Threats Against the Family Have Escalated Since February

President Trump has spoken publicly before about being told he is on an Iranian target list. Speaking in July at the NATO summit in Turkey, he said he believed he was on 'whatever list' Iran keeps and that he had been fortunate so far, though he acknowledged that luck might not hold.

He left the summit early aboard an alternate military aircraft, reportedly boarding it while concealed inside a catering truck, after officials identified a specific threat involving a shoulder-fired missile that they judged made either version of Air Force One too dangerous to use.

The broadcast follows a video released in July by the IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency, titled 'Where to Kill Melania?!', which detailed the first lady's movements around New York and closed with a direct warning aimed at her son: 'Barron Trump, wait for us.'

A separate video had earlier purported to map the route of the president's own motorcade between airports and his homes in Florida and New York, footage the Secret Service also confirmed it was reviewing.

Iranian state media had already displayed direct threats against the president himself. A billboard in Tehran's Islamic Revolution Square in July showed Trump apparently lying in a coffin beneath the words 'We will kill Trump', written in English.

Crowds carrying similar placards gathered during the funeral events for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on 28 February in a joint US-Israeli strike that opened the current war between the two countries.

A Pattern of Threats Dating Back to 2020

The threats trace back further still, to the January 2020 US drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, at Baghdad International Airport, an operation Trump authorised during his first term. Iranian officials vowed retaliation at the time and have renewed those pledges repeatedly in the years since.

Anti-American rallies featuring chants of 'Death to America' have been a fixture of state-organised events in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

For now, the bounty claim remains unverified, but the video's release shows Tehran's state media naming individual members of the Trump family with new and unsettling specificity.