Tehran: Iran has showed no sign of surrendering to the mighty enemy ever since US-Israeli joint missile strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other leaders in Tehran on February 28.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 8, even as Tehran has refused to give up control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz despite an American navy blockade of Iranian ports in the region.
And now, Iran is reportedly mulling a $58 million bounty on US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to reports by The Telegraph UK and Iran Wire, Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian Parliament, has announced that the body was preparing a bill titled ‘Counter-Action by the Military and Security Forces of the Islamic Republic’ that will formalise payment of 50 million euros (approximately 58.23 million US dollars) to any individual or entity who would assassinate the top leaders of the United States and Israel.
The Iranian Parliament is scheduled to vote on the bill which offers rewards for assassinating Trump and Netanyahu for the strikes that killed Ayatollah, triggering a war and tensions in West Asia.
Azizi is of the view that Trump, Netanyahu and United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral Brad Cooper must be targeted for “counter-action” for their alleged role in the assassination of Khamenei, Iran Wire has written.
Mahmoud Nabavian, another member of Iran’s national security commission, also said that the Parliament will soon vote on setting rewards for whoever “sends Trump and Netanyahu to hell.”
The reports come days after Masaf, a pro-regime media outlet, claimed that the Islamic republic had secured $50 million in financial resources for a campaign termed ‘Kill Trump’.
Iran’s state-sponsored cyberwarfare group ‘Handala’ had earlier issued a statement claiming it has allocated $50 million for the “elimination of the primary architects of oppression and corruption” — Trump and Netanyahu.
