Iranian Bill Would Put €50 Million Bounty on Trump, Netanyahu

Iran’s parliament is expected to vote on a bill that would offer a €50 million reward for killing US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper, Iranian National Security Commission chairman Ebrahim Azizi told state television.

The bill, titled “Reciprocal Action by Military and Security Forces of the Islamic Republic,” is one of several measures aimed at formalizing threats made by the Iranian regime against foreign leaders following the killing of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“We believe the vile president of the United States, the ominous and disgraceful Zionist prime minister, and the CENTCOM commander must be targeted and subjected to reciprocal action,” Azizi said.

He described the proposal as retaliation for Khamenei’s assassination.

“This is our right,” Azizi said. “Just as our Imam was martyred, the president of the United States must be dealt with by any Muslim or free person.”

Mahmoud Nabavian, a Shiite cleric and member of parliament, confirmed that the bill was expected to come to a vote. He said there had been threats against Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and warned that Iran’s response to such an attack would be “devastating.”

The proposed legislation follows earlier bounty threats against Trump. The Iranian group Blood Covenant previously raised $40 million as a reward for killing the US president after American strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites. The US-based Middle East Media Research Institute has described Blood Covenant as operating under the aegis of the Iranian regime.

Dr. Daniel Cohen, a research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and head of the Diplomatic Counter-Terrorism program at the Abba Eban Institute, said the proposed Iranian bill appeared to be primarily psychological warfare against foreign leaders.

Cohen said the measure resembled a distorted version of US State Department reward programs, which offer money for information leading to the capture of wanted terrorists.

Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts during his second term. In 2024, the US Justice Department charged an Iranian man over an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in March that an Iranian official involved in planning an assassination attempt against Trump had been killed in an American airstrike.