Iran: Man announces $80 mn bounty on Trump's head after Soleimani's killing

Amidst national mourning in Iran over death of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, a man anunced a bounty of $80 million on US President Donald Trump. During funeral procession of Soleimani, an unidentified Islamic eulogist declared bounty, brocasted live on a state TV station.

“We are 80 million Iranians. If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us Trump’s he with that amount,” said eulogist to huge crowd gared in Mashh.

man went on to say that whoever brings he of “yellow-haired lunatic” will get $80 million “on behalf of great Iranian nation”. Meanwhile, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in a statement, said that it was t possible to hold procession in Tehran due to massive crowd. It said that funeral procession needs to be cancelled and urged people to attend a ceremony houring Soleimani at Tehran University on January 6.

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On January 3, United States anunced that it killed General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghd’s international airport. After Soleimani’s death, Trump said that United States terminated him because he was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel”.

In a televised briefing, he ded that Iran’s top commander me death of incent people his “sick passion”, contributing to terrorist plots as far away as New Delhi and London. 

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situation has furr escalated after Iran officially anunced its exit from 2015 nuclear deal. In 2015, Iran reached a historic nuclear deal with P5+1 group which included US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.

Iran, under 2015 nuclear deal, formally kwn as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed to limit sensitive nuclear activities in lieu of lifting ecomic sanctions. However, Trump ministration, in May 2018, withdrew from nuclear deal accusing Iran of violating terms of JCPOA and followed it with crippling ecomic sanctions.

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