Khabor Wala Desk
Published: 18th July 2026, 7:42 PM
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi umbrella group of Iran-backed militants has announced a bounty of 10 million US dollars for the assassination of US President Donald Trump. According to current foreign exchange rates, the reward equates to approximately 1.23 billion Bangladeshi taka.
The announcement was made by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) via a formal statement distributed through their affiliated communication networks. The coalition declared that the substantial reward will be paid to any individual, group, or institution that successfully eliminates the American leader, whom they explicitly classified as a high-profile criminal.
According to the militant coalition, the multi-million-dollar bounty was raised entirely through internal contributions rather than foreign state funding. The faction stated that financial donations were pooled from their active members and regional supporters specifically to fund the assassination plot.
The group’s statement carried highly charged ideological rhetoric, warning that Western leaders would find no sanctuary from their operational reach. “The free people of the world will relentlessly pursue the killers of children and scientists,” the official proclamation read. “Tyrants will never taste peace, and this criminal will find no safe haven from the righteous fury of honourable men.”
The leadership of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq emphasised that extracting blood revenge for their fallen commanders remains a mandatory religious and military obligation for all their fighters. They asserted that the blood of their martyrs would continue to destabilise the positions of arrogant Western powers until all foreign intervention forces are expelled from the region and the strongholds of tyranny are dismantled.
The timing of the bounty is directly linked to recent diplomatic disclosures in Washington that have reignited regional anger. According to reports published by regional media outlets, including Gulf News, President Trump reportedly made a candid admission regarding past American military operations during a high-level White House meeting with an Iraqi delegation.
During the discussions, which involved the newly appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, Trump allegedly boasted about his direct role in authorising the high-profile January 2020 drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport. That targeted operation resulted in the deaths of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the influential deputy chief of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces.
The public confirmation of personal responsibility by the US President deeply angered the command council of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. Factions within the coalition view the admission as a flagrant boast of state-sanctioned murder, prompting them to swiftly issue the financial reward for his death. Security agencies in Washington have reportedly reviewed the threats, maintaining heightened protective protocols for the American president amidst ongoing regional volatility.
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