Iran's Chilling Threat: $40 Million Bounty on Trump's Head Revealed

Greg Kelly pulled no punches when he unpacked the latest, brazen threat from Iran to President Donald Trump, and Americans should be furious, not stunned. The Justice Department has already laid out chilling details: on November 8, 2024 federal prosecutors charged an IRGC-linked asset, Farhad Shakeri, and two U.S.-based associates in plots that included an instruction to develop a plan to kill Mr. Trump.

 Those court documents are not fantasy — the DOJ alleges Shakeri was an asset of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was tasked with recruiting operatives and developing assassination plans, while two New Yorkers were arrested for related schemes on U.S. soil. The intelligence and law enforcement work that uncovered this network proves our enemies are actively plotting against American leaders and dissidents alike.

If that weren’t enough, radical clerics and regime-linked outfits in Iran have gone further, with reports in mid-2025 of fatwas and a crowdfunding campaign dubbed the “Blood Covenant” claiming to have raised roughly $40 million for a bounty on President Trump’s head. This isn’t rhetorical bluster — analysts say the campaign draws on religious justifications and appears tied to regime-aligned actors, making the threat both ideological and financial.

Make no mistake: an effort to put a price on the head of an American president is more than a threat to one man — it is a direct affront to U.S. sovereignty and to the rule of law around the world. Only a fool or an appeaser would pretend this is merely “political theater”; it’s an existential security problem that demands an ironclad response from a confident America.

It’s past time Washington stopped wringing its hands and started acting like the guardians of a free nation. Senior U.S. officials have repeatedly warned of Iran’s dangerous reach, and the DOJ’s moves in November 2024 were a stark reminder that Tehran uses proxies, operatives, and criminal networks to export violence — a reality that requires maximum pressure, targeted sanctions, and relentless counterterror operations.

While the legacy mainstream media half-yawns and looks for an angle to excuse appeasement, Greg Kelly and his colleagues on Newsmax are doing the job the rest won’t do: sounding the alarm and demanding accountability from those who’ve long treated Iran with kid gloves. Americans who love their country should thank reporters who tell the truth and insist our leaders defend the homeland without apology.

This threat is a wake-up call to every patriot: demand your elected officials treat Iran like the savage, revanchist regime it is, protect our president and citizens, and stop pretending diplomacy alone will deter men who issue death warrants against our leaders. Stand with President Trump, stand for American strength, and refuse to cower while our enemies crow about murder and pay for it.