'Bring the Head of Trump': Iran Must Be Stopped
by Majid Rafizadeh • July 26, 2025 at 5:00 am
Shortly after the fatwa was announced, Mansour Emami, the state-appointed head of Iran's official Islamic Propagation Organization... announced that a reward of 100 billion tomans (approximately $1.14 million) would be paid to anyone who "brings the head of Trump."
On top of that, reports from inside Iran reveal that the regime and its supporters have reportedly raised more than $40 million in a crowdfunding campaign to murder Trump.
What has the response been from the international community? Silence. Where are the liberal voices, the pro-Iran "diplomacy-first" crowd, the think tank elites who have spent years telling us that we should appease Tehran and give them billions of dollars for "peace"? Where are the so-called champions of human rights in the West, who constantly criticize Israel and the U.S. but cannot seem to say a word about an Islamic regime putting a bounty on the head of an American president?
In the minds of Iran's clerics, a fatwa is binding, a direct command from a "representative of God" on earth. When a fatwa calls for killing a person, it is a divine order for murder, complete with the promise of heavenly reward for the murderer.
When Shirazi issued his fatwa, he did not just target Trump. He declared Trump a mohareb — an enemy of God. In the ideology of Iran's theocratic regime, this label also carries the death penalty. The person who kills Trump, in their eyes, is not just a hitman; he is a holy warrior. A martyr. A man destined for paradise, where virgins and heavenly blessings await him. It is this worldview that is now driving Iran's strategy; the danger is not just to Trump, but to every nation in the free world and to everyone who practices any religion other than Shia Islam.
It is time for Americans to stop pretending that diplomacy will solve everything. It will not.
Every American should support policies that will eventually lead to the fall of Iran's murderous government: it does not hesitate to kill its neighbors or even its own people... and continuing to use military force when necessary to protect American lives and interests.
Under no circumstances should the US reward Iran with concessions. In Iran, that is seen only as weakness. It sends a message to every terrorist and tyrant in the world that the United States can be pushed to offer bribes, which are then used to build their war machines.
If we allow such aggression go unanswered—if we allow a sitting president to be hunted with no consequences — we are only begging for more attacks.
Iran's regime has crossed a line that no sovereign state has ever crossed before: it openly called for the assassination of a sitting president of the United States.
Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran's theocratic system, has issued an official fatwa — a religious decree — calling for the murder of President Donald J. Trump. It did not come from some fringe radical hiding in a cave. It came directly from the top of Iran's religious and political hierarchy. This is equivalent to a declaration of war. What makes the fatwa even more outrageous is that the regime is not just issuing threats—it has been raising money, publicly -- to pay for Trump's murder. It is not a joke. It is a direct, state-sanctioned call to eliminate America's leader.
