US Secret Service aware of Iranian video threat to assassinate Barron Trump

The US Secret ⁠Service is aware ⁠of a video ⁠broadcast by Iranian state television discussing a potential plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump’s youngest son, a spokesman said on ‌Tuesday.“The US Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees.“Out of concern for operational security, we ⁠do not discuss matters of protective intelligence,” Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring wrote in an email.A three-minute video broadcast by Iranian state television ‌discussed a potential plot to assassinate Barron Trump, ⁠20, ⁠claiming that he was being monitored and alleging that a US$10 ‌million Bounty had been offered for his killing.The United States and ‌Iran have ‌kept up hostile rhetoric during a nearly six-month-old ‌war started by the US and Israel in ⁠February.Reuters reported earlier this month that the US ⁠has received several warnings from Israel over the past year that Iran intended to assassinate Trump, according ‌to officials, including ‌before a secret Air Force One ruse in Turkey.