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Iranian lawmaker offers $3 million reward ‘to anyone who kills Trump’: Report

Tehran | ByAgence France-Presse
Jan 22, 2020 08:28 AM IST

The Iranian lawmaker did not say who would pay the bounty offer, which comes a month ahead of a parliamentary election.

An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday offered a USD 3-million reward to “anyone who kills” US President Donald Trump to avenge the assassination of a top general, semi-official news agency ISNA reported.

President Donald Trump has said that he thinks Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning attacks against four US embassies.(Reuters File Photo)
President Donald Trump has said that he thinks Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning attacks against four US embassies.(Reuters File Photo)

Ahmad Hamzeh, a little-known member of the Majlis, made the offer on behalf of the people of Kerman, the hometown and final resting place of storied commander Major General Qasem Soleimani.

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“We will give USD 3 million to anyone who kills Trump,” Hamzeh, who represents Kahnouj county near the southeastern city of Kerman, was quoted as saying by ISNA.

He did not say who would pay the bounty offer, which comes a month ahead of a parliamentary election.

Soleimani, one of the most popular public figures in Iran, was killed on January 3 in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport.

Washington’s ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Robert Wood, told journalists in Geneva that the offer was “just ridiculous”.

“But it gives you a sense of the terrorist underpinnings of that regime, and that regime needs to change its behaviour,” he said.

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