Iranian state TV airs video threatening Barron Trump

Iranian state television aired a segment Aug. 23 threatening Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of President Donald Trump, and claiming to have monitored his movements. 

The roughly 3-minute video, broadcast on Iran’s state-run Channel 3, carried a title translated in English-language reports as “Where to kill Barron Trump?” according to the New York Post. The segment also claimed to have identified Barron’s Xbox, FIFA, and Discord accounts and named two of his classmates, according to the report. 

The Post cited “multiple reports” alleging that the Iranian regime also claimed it had placed a $10 million bounty on his head. The newspaper said it could not independently verify the alleged bounty, the surveillance claims, or the statements that the video made about Barron’s classmates. 

The Washington Examiner reported July 28 that Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had targeted First Lady Melania Trump and Barron in an earlier propaganda video. That video similarly claimed to track Melania’s movements.

The latest video comes as the Trump administration is preparing to escalate economic pressure on Tehran nearly six months after the war began Feb. 28. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Iran in an Aug. 23 Financial Times op-ed that the U.S. would unleash “economic D-Day,” which he described as the “single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.”

In an Aug. 24 Truth Social post, Trump said, “IRAN IS COMPLETELY COLLAPSING!!!” 

Bessent was expected to deliver an address later Aug. 24 outlining the new economic measures.