Iranian state media has broadcast a video titled “Where to kill Barron Trump” that claims to show the movements of Donald Trump’s 20-year-old son. The three-minute footage depicts the dorms at New York University’s Constance Milstein & Family Global Academic Centre.
Video claims to expose accounts and classmates
The report says it discovered Barron’s accounts for Xbox, FIFA video games, and Discord, along with those of his classmates, identifying two of them by name. Numerous reports suggest the regime has placed a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump’s head. The Post was unable to independently confirm the alleged bounty, the claims regarding his whereabouts, or the assertions about his classmates.
IRGC-linked media circulation
The footage was circulated through media outlets connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to Middle East news source Al Bawaba. The video concludes with the line: “This is just the beginning! Barron Trump, wait for us!”
This follows a July video promoted across IRGC-affiliated media, when Tasnim News Agency released footage titled “Where to Kill Melania?” which similarly purported to know Melania Trump’s whereabouts. That same month, a billboard appeared in Tehran’s Islamic Revolution Square depicting the president seemingly deceased in a coffin, accompanied by the English text “We Kill Trump.”
Previous threats and escalating pressure
Iranian-backed media also distributed a video called “Where to Kill Trump?!” which claimed to reveal the routes his presidential motorcade uses when travelling to and from his residences in Florida and New York. The president has previously faced assassination threats from Iran, which was infuriated by his January 2020 drone strike that killed the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran is now reeling from the death of its late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was targeted in an Israeli strike in February.
Trump has been escalating his pressure campaign on Iran, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealing an “economic D-Day” strategy to devastate Tehran’s economy, which is already reeling from skyrocketing inflation and the effects of a blockade. “We are now entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day - the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary,” said Bessent. In anticipation of the Trump administration’s implementation of debilitating measures, Iran’s currency, the rial, plummeted to a new low, trading at approximately 1.5 million rials to the dollar.
