The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is putting a hit out on President Donald Trump’s son, Barron Trump, with an inflammatory video claiming to track his location.
State-run television in Iran is broadcasting a propaganda video claiming to show the locations of his residence, university, and personal security, according to opposition outlet Iran International. The video, titled “Where and how should we kill Barron Trump?”, claims a person working with the Guard has infiltrated Barron Trump’s circle and fed information to the terrorist group.
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Graphics, maps, and models in the video are crudely rendered in computer-generated animation, and the Guard offered no proof of its claims to have Barron Trump “fully monitored.”
Iran’s report concludes with a $10 million offer for the life of the president’s son, speculating that “many would be willing” to attempt the crime.
While the subject of the threats and their prominence on state-run media channels is surprising, it is not unprecedented rhetoric. The Iranian regime has a long history of threatening the lives of Trump, his family, and his allies — often in graphic ways.
Following the failed assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the run-up to the 2024 election, the Guard repurposed images of Trump bleeding for materials threatening to carry out its own assassination in retribution for the death of Qasem Soleimani during his first administration. The Guard also released videos of Trump being killed by an aerial drone on a golf course.
Depictions of the president being killed appear frequently on signs, billboards, and other public displays in Tehran. These propaganda pieces depict him being killed in a variety of disturbing ways, including strangulation and falling into a body of water after being shot.
Since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury earlier this year, the saber-rattling videos from Tehran have exploded in quantity and expanded in scope.
Last month, the Guard released a video similar to the Barron Trump piece targeting first lady Melania Trump, titled “Where to Kill Melania?!” That piece encouraged “freedom fighters” to hunt down and kill the first lady at shopping locations in New York that it claimed she frequents.
It also named multiple members of her styling team and suggested poisoning her through her clothes.
The Melania clip ended with the tag: “This is just the beginning; Barron Trump, wait for us!”
Trump has not commented on the threats made against his family but regularly acknowledges and muses on the fact that he is “No. 1 on the kill list for Iran.”
“I’m on every single one of their lists, and so far, I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long,” he told reporters last month when asked about the threats on his life.
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Earlier this month, Trump confirmed that he switched planes following the end of his summit in Turkey. The Secret Service reportedly instructed him to change aircraft due to unspecified threats.
The president has claimed that in the event of an assassination attempt by Iran, successful or otherwise, he has left instructions to “decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” in retaliation.
