Iranian Citizens Receive Mass SMS Urging Participation in ‘Trump Assassination Prize’ Campaign
Millions of Iranians are receiving state-routed SMS messages inciting them to join a "Reward on Eliminating Trump" campaign. Linked to the regime-tolerated Rubika app, this mass-messaging push offers a bounty for the U.S. President's assassination as Operation Epic Fury escalates and Tehran officially rejects all cease-fire proposals.
Iranians across the country are receiving text messages on their mobile phones calling on them to join an “International Campaign for the Reward on Eliminating Trump,” according to screenshots and reports circulating on Iranian opposition channels and social media.
The unsolicited SMS messages, which began arriving within the past several hours, direct recipients to a dedicated campaign website and a channel on Rubika, Iran’s state-tolerated social-messaging app. The texts promote what they describe as a bounty or prize for the assassination of President Donald Trump.
The campaign appears to be a new mass-messaging push building on earlier regime-linked fundraising efforts. In 2025, Iranian hard-liners launched the so-called “Blood Covenant” initiative, which claimed to have raised tens of millions of dollars for anyone who assassinates Trump.
Iranian authorities have not officially claimed responsibility for the latest SMS drive, but the messages are being sent to civilian phone numbers and routed through domestic telecommunications networks.
The development comes as tensions between Washington and Tehran remain at a boiling point during the U.S.-led Operation Epic Fury, now in its fourth week. U.S. forces have conducted repeated strikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, including fresh A-10 Thunderbolt II gun runs Tuesday on Habbaniyah base in Al-Anbar province. Tehran on Tuesday rejected a U.S. cease-fire proposal and described American claims of ongoing talks as “illogical.”
Opposition activists inside Iran described the messages as part of a coordinated effort, either directly backed or quietly tolerated by the government, to rally public support and maintain pressure on the Trump administration.
The messages are the latest example of Tehran’s use of domestic communications infrastructure to promote anti-U.S. messaging during the war. Rubika, the platform linked in the texts, is one of the few social apps still widely accessible inside Iran after the government restricted or blocked many foreign services.
No immediate reaction was available from the White House or U.S. Central Command. President Trump has previously dismissed Iranian threats against him as evidence that Tehran is “desperate” and “losing badly.”
The SMS drive has drawn swift attention on Iranian social media and among diaspora communities, where some users posted screenshots of the exact message alongside warnings that it reflects the regime’s continued hostility even as the U.S. presses its military campaign.