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Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Enemy of Allah': Iran-linked group crowdfunds $40 million for assassination of Trump
The group 'Blood Covenant' reportedly launched the assassination campaign following fatwas issued by multiple Iranian clerics. A crowdfunding effort, linked to a former employee of Iran's state media, has raised $40 million as a bounty for the assassination of US PresidentDonald Trump, The New York Post reported last Saturday. The group 'Blood Covenant' reportedly launched the assassination campaign following fatwas issued by multiple Iranian clerics. Following Trump's orders to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities, the clerics reportedly labeled Trump as an 'enemy of Allah.' 'We pledge to award the prize to whoever can bring the militants and those who threaten the life of the Deputy of Imam Mahdi (may our souls be sacrificed for him) to justice for their actions,' the Blood Covenant wrote on its website. The US-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) think tank reported that Blood Covenant runs 'under the aegis of the Iranian regime.' 'This is a call to jihad, inviting believers to donate their money and sacrifice their lives,' MEMRI said in an analysis of the fundraising effort. 'The poster lends religious legitimacy to assassinating Trump. 'The fact that these calls to assassinate Trump are coming from above and being echoed in the street and through all strata of society, including in the Iranian media … reflects a broad religious and regime consensus strengthened by reiterated emphasis of the reward anyone carrying out the punishment against Trump can expect to receive — in addition to the $40.3 million, also Paradise and the status of a defender of Islam.' Blood Covenant's efforts were reportedly supported by ten Iranian state-appointed clerics, according to dissident media site Iran International. Additionally, the London-based dissident media reported that Azeri, a state-appointed cleric in Iran's West Azarbaijan Province, announced a reward of 100 billion tomans (approximately $1.14 million) for the murder of the US president. 'We will give 100 billion tomans to anyone who brings the head of Trump,' said Mansour Emami, the provincial director of the official Islamic Propagation Organization in West Azerbaijan. Despite the clerics being state-appointed, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said during his interview with Tucker Carlson, 'To the best of my knowledge, they have not issued decrees or fatwas against any individual or against Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with the Iranian government or the Supreme Leader of Iran.' Attempts on US President Donald Trump's life A Pakistani national alleged to have ties with Iran wascharged in 2024 for planning the assassination of a number of US officials, including Trump. The alleged goal of Asif Merchant was to target those in the US who were "hurting Pakistan and the world, [the] Muslim world," the CNN report said, citing the court documents. Additionally, the Justice Department reported in 2024 that one of three American citizens charged with the attempted assassination of Trump was also surveilling two Jewish American citizens and claimed an IRGC official offered him $500,000 for the murder of either the president or American Jewry. Shir Perets contributed to this report.
Telegraph
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Will Iran really try to assassinate Trump?
The news that an Iranian website has crowdfunded a 40 million dollar bounty to be paid to any assassin who manages to kill Donald Trump will not daunt a president who has already survived two assassination attempts. But the threat should be taken very seriously: the Islamic Republic has a long track record for taking vicious vengeance on those it deems to have harmed it. In 1988, the American warship USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian airbus, killing all 290 people on board. A few months later, in December 1988, a Pan Am flight en route from London to New York was brought down by a bomb over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 270 people on board from 21 different nationalities died. Although a Libyan official working for the now fallen Gaddafi regime was convicted and jailed for that crime, many people, including bereaved relatives of the Lockerbie victims, believe that the real culprits behind the bombing were the Iranians, taking a savage revenge for the Vincennes tragedy. The concept of vengeance plays a large role in cultures across the whole Middle East. For example, in April 1993, President George Bush senior was visiting Kuwait on the first anniversary of the liberation of that Emirate from Iraqi occupation in the first Gulf War. An American-led coalition had repelled an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein but left his regime in place. On the eve of Bush's arrival, Kuwaiti security police arrested 14 men and accused them of being Iraqi agents plotting to blow up the president with a bomb planted in a Toyota Land cruiser. Anger about that plot against his father is thought to have been a major motive prompting President George W. Bush's disastrous decision to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam ten years later in 1993, ostensibly as punishment for 9/11, an atrocity for which Iraq bore no responsibility. Iranian agents have been accused of plotting to kill John Bolton, who briefly served as Trump's national security advisor during his first term in the White House, and is a foreign policy hawk who has called for the downfall of the Ayatollahs' regime. Tehran has a well documented record for fomenting terror against the West over many years; there is no reason why they should stop now. Indeed, by carrying out US bunker busting strikes against two of Iran's buried nuclear facilities, Trump has handed the Mullahs an added grievance to avenge. The president may yet come to regret imposing a premature ceasefire to stop last month's 12 day war before Israel had finished the job of destroying Tehran's terrorist beast has been wounded but not killed, and in that injured and resentful state is more dangerous to the world than ever.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Disgraced Miami Booster Makes Admission About Placing Bounty on Tim Tebow
Disgraced Miami Booster Makes Admission About Placing Bounty on Tim Tebow originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Former Miami Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro doesn't blame fraud for being the reason why he was imprisoned. No, his 20-year sentence for a Ponzi scheme is the fault of former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow. Advertisement 'I set a bounty on Tim Tebow and I think God made me pay for it by sending me to prison,' Shapiro said during a conversation with Anthony Mo Hasan last month. 'You know, I'm not kidding. I thought about this when I was locked up. Like, 'I wonder if that bounty I set on Tim Tebow … really cost me my freedom.' I didn't pay it out because we didn't collect. They didn't collect, but I set a bounty on him.' Shapiro put a target on Tebow, at the time the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, during Miami's battle with the eventual BCS national champion Gators in 2008. If Randy Shannon's defense was trying to hurt the famed Florida passer, it was to no avail. Tebow went 21 for 35 for 256 yards and a pair of touchdowns through the air. He ran through the Hurricanes' defense for 55 yards on 13 carries, as well. Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow (15) looks to throw against the Florida State Seminoles during the second quarter at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida© John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports 'I'll never go his route, his way again,' Shapiro said. 'That was it, man. I went away for 10 years. I think it's because of that. … I'm glad I didn't put a bounty on (Aaron) Hernandez. He might've came back for me in real life." Advertisement Worth noting, Hernandez reeled in five passes for 58 yards and a 14-yard touchdown on the Gators' first possession. Miami finished that season with a 7-6 mark, part of a 13-year stretch in which the Hurricanes failed to win at least 10 games during a single season. Related: Florida Dealt Huge Recruiting Loss by National Championship Contenders This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
South China Morning Post
24-06-2025
- South China Morning Post
Chinese man offers US$70,000 bounty to find real killer after wrongfully jailed for 8 years
A Chinese man who was wrongly jailed for murder has offered a generous 500,000-yuan (US$70,000) bounty for information leading to the arrest of the real killer. Chen Shijiang, 49, from eastern China's Shandong province, has taken to social media in search of clues. In 1998, at the age of 22, Chen was wrongly convicted of killing a woman in his village. The 56-year-old victim was the wife of a cash keeper for the village government. Chen was accused of killing her to steal money for a furniture factory he was planning to open. Chen Shijiang is offering a reward of US$70,000 for information leading to the capture of the real killer. Photo: handout Chen said he was tortured by the police to confess to the crime, but the court did not believe him.
Bloomberg
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
China Offers $1,400 Bounty for Arrests of Taiwan Cyberwarriors
China placed a bounty on cyberwarriors working for Taiwan's Defense Ministry, extending its campaign to squeeze President Lai Ching-te. Police in the southern city of Guangzhou are seeking the arrest of 20 people working for Taiwan's Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday.
