Iran Airs Video Claiming Barron Trump Being Spied On, Offers $10 Million Bounty On His Head

Update(1900ET): While it was largely Israeli media's Ch.14 which first called attention to the "Where to kill Barron Trump" clip, the short video does appear to be a creation of Iranian state media. It is indeed authentic.

It is currently featured at the Tehran-based Tebyan Cultural Institute's official Persian-language homepage. The institute is highly visible in Iran (more here), and is affiliated with the Islamic Development Organization, which is under the Supreme Leader and is also linked to the IRGC and its media channels. The video is hosted at the official state institute here.

A MEMRI TV (Middle East Media Research Institute) translation of the video closes by featuring reference to a $10 million dollar bounty placed on the US president's son Barron, disturbingly...

Iran’s next target: Barron Trump, President Trump’s son, with a $10 million bounty on his head.

Iran’s state television and radio network published classified information revealing the precise locations of Donald Trump’s son and the places he had visited.

Translated by MEMRI TV… pic.twitter.com/RxviWJ1atr

— ilana israelov (@izrailov94) August 24, 2026

The official Tebyan website also features English subtitles for the video.

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As the U.S.-Iran confrontation barrels into a new phase, Tehran's propaganda machine has gone from Legos to death threats. 

A newly surfaced Iranian state media video openly fantasizes about the assassination of Barron Trump. The clip, titled "Where to kill Barron Trump," claims without evidence to have dug up the 20-year-old's Xbox and Discord accounts.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran’s regime has placed a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump.

Following the release of an IRGC-linked video tracking Melania Trump, IRGC media and State TV channel 3 have now leaked confidential location and movement logs for Barron Trump, declaring him within striking… pic.twitter.com/H4Zk3flXum

— C14 News | EN (@c14english) August 23, 2026

The disturbing video also claims to track the Barron's movements and displayed depictions of dorms at New York University. The clip also claims a $10 million bounty has been placed on Barron. The video circulated through media tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Middle East outlet Al Bawaba reported, according to The New York Post. The clip was first translated by Euronews.

The chilling report comes as the Trump administration is preparing to roll out a sweeping campaign to economically strangle Iran and anyone still doing business with it.

As we reported this morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that he will hold a Monday press conference to talk about exactly what we're going to do" about an economic war against Tehran.

"We are now entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day, the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary," Bessent warned in an X post on Sunday. "President Trump has dismantled Iran's military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear program."

"The Islamic Republic has subsisted by dressing extortion as security guarantees. It has drawn strength from a calculus that regards Iranian retaliation as certain and American enforcement as negotiable," the top Trump official added. "Under President Trump, that era is over. And those who fear the danger of defying Tehran ought not to discount the cost of testing Washington."

As Bessent's economic measures loom, the purchasing power of ordinary Iranians continues to plummet.

The rial has cratered to a record low, trading around 2.02 million to the dollar on the open market, a staggering gap from the central bank's official rate of roughly 1.5 million. Rice is up 60% in a matter of months, while beef has exploded 150%. The International Monetary Fund now projects Iran's economy will contract by 5%.