A senior Iranian official is warning that President Donald Trump could be killed by a drone strike while at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, continuing the threats being made against the president's life, and as a website is claiming to have collected millions of dollars in bounty money against him.
"Trump has done something that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago," Javad Larijani, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a brother to two of the country's most powerful political figures, said in televised remarks, reports Iran International on Wednesday.
"As he lies there with his stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit him in the navel," Larijani added. "It's very simple."
His comments were made after statements made by Blood Pact, a platform raising funds online to stage "retribution against those who mock and threaten" Khamenei.
Blood Pact claims to have collected more than $40 million and has stated it wants to raise $100 million to assassinate Trump. It is not clear who operates the site.
The Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, reported the initiative's launch, and also called on religious groups in Iran and elsewhere to rally at Western embassies and central locations to express their support for Khamenei.
It also urged the use of "Islamic rulings on moharebeh," translated as "waging war against God," against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Moharebeh, in Iran's legal system, is considered a crime that is punishable by death.
Trump has been the target of assassination threats since 2020, when he ordered the killing of IRGC Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, and last year, law enforcement in the United States accused Iran's military of organizing a plot to kill the president.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday told Tucker Carlson that the "fatwa of warfare" is not connected with Iran's government or Khamenei, but the Kayhan newspaper, which is overseen by a representative of the supreme leader, dismissed his remarks.
"This is not an academic opinion," it said in an editorial. "It is a clear religious ruling in defense of faith, sanctities, and especially the guardianship of the jurist."
The paper added that any future "firestarter" would face retaliation and concluded that "The Islamic Republic will drown Israel in blood."
Gholamali Jafarzadeh Imenabadi, a former lawmaker, condemned that newspaper's position.
"I can't believe Kayhan's editor-in-chief Hossein Shariatmadari is Iranian ... saying Trump should be assassinated will bring the cost down on the people," he said.
But Kayhan wrote, in response, that "avenging Trump is nearly a national demand. It is Imenabadi's words that are out of step with Iranian values."
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