DUBAI — An Iranian lawmaker has offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms,
Reuters reports that the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday along with Tehran's latest standoff with Washington.
U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood has dismissed the reward as "ridiculous," telling reporters that the report showed the "terrorist underpinnings" of Iran's establishment.
Tensions between the United States and Iran have been escalating since Trump pulled the United States out of Iran's s nuclear agreement with world powers in 2018 and reimposed broad U.S. sanctions. The standoff erupted into a series of tit-for-tat military strikes this month.
"On behalf of the people of Kerman province, we will pay a $3 million reward in cash to whoever kills Trump," lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh told the 290-seat parliament, ISNA reported.
There was no word if the bounty had any official backing from Iran's clerical rulers.
