Iran targets Melania Trump, son Barron in sick ‘how to’ assassination video

New video part of propaganda campaign out of Tehran targeting U.S. president's family

Published Jul 27, 2026  •  Last updated 21 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

First lady Melania Trump looks at her son Barron Trump in Washington, DC. Photo by Chip Somodevilla /Getty Images

A new Iranian propaganda campaign is targeting First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron by encouraging supporters to assassinate them, according to the New York Post.

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A new video, “How to Kill Melania Trump,” was published out of Iran and shows images of the First Lady in a presidential motorcade and some locations around New York City, listing some of the stores where she shops. The video directed at supporters of the Islamic regime then threatens Barron, 20, at the end of the video.

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The Secret Service and the East Wing didn’t comment on the video when asked by the Post.

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Tehran’s twisted campaign

The video was the latest out of Tehran targeting U.S. President Donald Trump’s family. Billboards have appeared around the Iranian capital calling for the death of the president, Melania, Barron and Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

Melania has recently been out of the public eye, most notably missing Friday night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner. The Post reported the First Lady had a “scheduling conflict” at the time.

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Trump and his family have long been targets of Iran’s hardline Islamic regime, even before the war. According to Manhattan federal prosecutors, Iran hired an operative, Farhad Shakeri, to assassinate the president before the 2024 election, one in a string of plots against the president.

The U.S. military hunted down and killed Shakeri in March.

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High-ranking Iranians killed

The U.S. and Israel have successfully targeted and killed many high-ranking members of Iran’s hardline Islamic regime.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled the country since 1989 and had crushed any dissent challenging his rule, was killed in airstrikes on his Tehran residence. Trump called him a “vile man.”

Other high-ranking Iranians killed included national head of defence Ali Shamkani, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cmdr. Mohammad Pakpour (who replaced Hossein Salamani after Israel killed him), defence minister and former air force Cmdr. Aziz Nasirzadeh, armed forces chief of staff Sayyid Mousavi and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, among many others.

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