The Hamedan Gold Sellers Union announced a $50,000 reward for the decapitation of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. However, the bounty was met with fierce online ridicule from Iranians, who mocked the meager sum and celebrated the recent death of the Supreme Leader.
According to the hardline-leaning news channel خبرفوری ࡆ اخبارفوری مذاکره ࡆ جنگ فوری, the Hamedan Gold Sellers Union has announced a $50,000 reward—approximately 9 billion Iranian Tomans—to anyone who brings them the heads of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement was also broadcast by گروه خبرفوری, which stated the union promised the prize money would ensure the assassin is financially secured for the rest of their life.
However, in the public discussion group گروه خبر فوری, the announcement was met with overwhelming mockery from Iranian users who ridiculed both the financial inadequacy of the bounty and the union's disconnect from reality. Several users pointed out the absurdity of the sum for such high-profile targets; one commenter noted that $50,000 would not even cover a mortgage for an apartment, while another highlighted that merely securing a visa to Israel costs nearly $60,000. Other users advised the union to spend the $50,000 on better products from their drug dealer, and condemned the gold sellers as sanctions profiteers who have fed off Iran's crippled economy.
The chat also revealed deep anti-regime sentiment and provided grim context regarding a recent military strike. Users openly celebrated the recent death of the Supreme Leader, with one dissident expressing joy that the leader did not die of illness in a hospital at age 89. Another explicitly mocked the regime's casualties, stating that doctors still have not been able to extract a missile from the corpse of the leader. Users dismissed the union's bounty as an archaic stunt, comparing it to the times of Imam Ali and Muawiyah or a delusion brought on by watching the historical religious television series Mokhtarnameh.
Despite the fierce ridicule, a small minority of regime loyalists in the chat echoed the union's violent posture. One hardline user warned that they would soon place the enemies' heads on their mothers' chests, and another proclaimed that God is with them.
The source messages feature heavy use of colloquial insults and dark humor in Farsi, including references to becoming 'cutlets' (a derogatory slang term popularized by Iranian dissidents following the death of Qasem Soleimani) and graphic descriptions of the Supreme Leader's death. The translation preserves these explicit and graphic references to accurately reflect the intense polarization and overt anti-regime sentiment present in the public Telegram group. The $50,000 to 9 billion Tomans conversion explicitly highlights the severe devaluation of the Iranian currency, which users cited as a core reason for mocking the bounty.