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Listen Summarise The US Secret Service is aware of an Iranian state TV video threatening to assassinate Barron Trump and is investigating the potential threat. The video claims Barron Trump is being monitored and a $10 million bounty has been offered for his killing. Tensions between the US and Iran remain high, with previous warnings about assassination plots against Donald Trump and his family. AI generated
WASHINGTON - 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 spokesperson said on Aug 25.
“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 spokesperson Nate Herring said in an email.
A three-minute video broadcast by Iranian state TV discussed a potential plot to assassinate Barron Trump, 20, claiming that he was being monitored and alleging that a US$10 million (S$12.7 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.
Trump has described himself as “number one on the kill list for Iran”. REUTERS
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