Iran parliament could soon approve a “significant reward” for anyone who assassinates the US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a regime hardline cleric.
Mahmood Nabavian, a senior Iranian lawmaker and deputy chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee, who recently travelled to Islamabad as part of Iran’s negotiation team, made the remarks in a post on X amid escalating tensions between the Islamic Republic, Israel, and the United States.
In the same message, he warned that any future military action against the Islamic Republic or its leadership would trigger retaliatory attacks not only against the United States and Israel, but also against Arab governments in the region aligned with them.
“Threats against the Supreme Leader and military commanders have again been heard from the filthy mouths of some enemy officials,” Nabavian wrote. “The vile American and Zionist officials, as well as the heads of regional countries, should know that if any aggression takes place this time, we will destroy them along with their palaces.”
The cleric added that Iran’s parliament would soon, “God willing,” vote on allocating a reward for anyone who “sends the gambler Trump and the child-killer Netanyahu to hell.”
On May 15, Ebrahim Azizi, another Iranian MP announced that lawmakers were drafting a bill titled “Reciprocal Action by the Military and Security Forces of the Islamic Republic,” which includes a proposed €50 million reward for the killing of Trump
“As Trump ordered the killing of Ali Khamenei, he himself should be dealt with by every Muslim and every free person,” Azizi said, according to Iranian state television.
He added that under the proposal, if any individual or organisation carries out what he described as “this religious and ideological mission,” the Iranian government would be obligated to pay the €50 million reward.
Azizi also said the Islamic Republic believes Trump, Netanyahu, and Admiral Brad Cooper should face “retaliatory action” over what Iranian officials describe as actions leading to the death of Khamenei.
The statements are part of a broader pattern of threats, incitement, and calls for violence by Iranian lawmakers and regime-affiliated figures against Trump and Netanyahu.
In January the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee issued a statement warning that any attack on Ali Khamenei would amount to a declaration of war against “the entire Islamic world,” and that the United States should expect “a jihad ruling from Islamic scholars” and retaliation from “soldiers of Islam across the world.
Before the outbreak of war in February and the killing of Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Zarei wrote on X: “We too have longed to kill the murderer of Qassem Soleimani. We have never been this ready to exact retribution against Trump.”
On April 4 Kamran Ghazanfari endorsed a campaign calling for a reward for Trump’s assassination, saying that wherever the Islamic Republic gains access to Trump or other senior American and Israeli officials, it would “send them to hell.”
On April 21, Ali Shirazi said the Islamic Republic “will not back down” from avenging Qasem Soleimani and Khamenei, and declared that even a potential agreement with the United States would not mean abandoning plans to kill Trump. He described Trump’s punishment as “tearing him to pieces” before the so-called “Axis of Resistance.”
The next day Mohammad Bayat told the State backed news agency Didban Iran that Trump and Netanyahu “must be killed,” adding: “Killing one of them will not finish the job, but this must be done and the roots of colonialism must be struck down with an axe.”
Following the 11 day war, several senior Iranian Shia clerics, including 99 year old Naser Makarem Shirazi and 101 year old Hossein Noori Hamedani, issued religious decrees against Trump and Netanyahu that drew widespread attention.
Shortly afterward, a campaign called “Ahd-e Khoun” (“Blood Covenant”) was launched to raise funds for Trump’s assassination, with organisers claiming that more than $27 million had already been collected for the effort.
The threats prompted a response from Trump earlier this year. In an interview with NewsNation, the US president warned that if the Islamic Republic attempted to carry out threats against him, the United States would respond with overwhelming force and “wipe them off the face of the Earth.”
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