Iran's parliament is drafting legislation that would legally obligate the government to pay £44 million (€50 million / $54 million) to any individual, corporation, or organisation that assassinates US President Donald Trump, marking a dramatic escalation in Tehran's campaign of retaliatory threats against Western and Israeli leaders following the joint US-Israeli military operation that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on 28 February 2026.
The bill, announced on 14 May by Ebrahim Azizi, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, extends its targets beyond Trump to include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM). It represents the most explicit state-level formalisation yet of what had previously circulated as a grassroots and quasi-official campaign, and signals that Tehran is prepared to put legal mechanisms behind threats that Washington has treated as criminal conspiracies.
