Iran Now Offering Bounties for Killed or Captured American Soldiers

Iran has been taking a pounding from the United States and Israel for some months now. The regime is battered; the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps now appears to be either in charge or angling to be, having already seized control of what's left of Iran's military. Their civil leadership has been reduced to the third level by American explosives. And, the country is broke, with inflation at astronomic levels and their ports blockaded by the United States Navy.

So, when you hear that Iran is now offering a bounty to whomever can kill or capture an American service member, said bounty amounting to five billion tomans, about $30,000 in American freedom dollars, you have to wonder where they think they'll get the money should someone seek to collect. A toman is a superunit of Iran's rial, amounting to 10,000 of the new, devalued rials. Oh, and if a woman claims the prize, the award is doubled.

Iran's Army chief, a goblin named Amir Hatami, was quoted making the offer on Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency's X account.

An Agence France-Presse report, quoted and credited by the Irish news site The Journal, presented some details.

IRAN’S MILITARY HAS announced that it is offering a bounty equivalent to $30,000 (€26,000) for killing or capturing US soldiers, with the reward doubled if carried out by a woman.

Army chief Amir Hatami said the plan had been drawn up following “the large number of requests” to participate in the financial support, according to the IRNA state news agency.

There has been no known deployment of US ground forces in Iran during the Middle East war, with the exception of a rescue mission in April for a downed American pilot.

Hatami did not provide any details on where or when the killing or capturing of US soldiers was expected to take place.

“Anyone who kills or captures and hands over an invading American military personnel will receive a reward equivalent to $30,000 or 5 billion tomans from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army,” Hatami said, using an informal unit equivalent to 10,000 Iranian rials.

“Courageous Iranian women who carry out such an action will receive double the reward,” he added.

Now, this seems an unlikely prospect. What's left of Iran's leadership may be trying to get by on the cheap, but here's the real flaw in this notion: There are no American service members on the ground in Iran. That means anyone seeking this bounty would have to carry out their attack somewhere else, such as on an American installation elsewhere in the Middle East, and that's not going to be an easy task for an Iranian man (or woman) with his (or her) eye on the main chance. Add to that the complication of anyone collecting on this if they are not in Iran. How are they to get paid, when so much of Iran's remaining assets are locked up? It's not like Iran can take a page from Barack Obama's book and airlift a pallet of Iranian cash to some goblin hiding in the sand dunes in Kuwait.

An announcement like this smacks of desperation. This isn't an offer made by a regime that's confident about their chances of prevailing. 

Then again, we are forced to remember, there are an unknown number of Iranian nationals illegally in the United States right now, in large part because of four years of non-enforcement of our borders and our immigration laws under Joe Biden, and we have little idea where many of them are and what they may be up to. That, honestly, is the real elephant in the room.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/08/16/new-iran-now-offering-bounties-for-killed-or-captured-american-soldiers-n2205671

Texas Officials Ignored Fury Over Massive Islamic Center Expansion — Now They Face a Recall

When concerned McKinney, Texas, residents showed up in droves for a recent town council meeting where city leaders were considering the proposed expansion plan for the Islamic Association of McKinney, Republican Rep. Keith Self (TX-03) – who represents the area in Congress – was right there alongside his fellow outraged citizens. 

As RedState previously reported, so many McKinney residents showed up at the August 4 meeting to voice their outrage that they overflowed out into the hallway and the start of the meeting was delayed by 30 minutes so all of the speakers could get registered. They were amped up and united in their opposition to the massive expansion plan.

Rep. Self was the first one to speak when the meeting finally began, saying bluntly, "Child marriage, honor killings, don't tell me it can't happen here." He continued, “The freedom to choose our faith or not does not exist in political Islam. Ask any Muslim what the penalty is for leaving political Islam. It’s death.”

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He immediately followed that by saying:

“I have any number of videos of imams in America, modern-day America, preaching sedition, open sedition, against the U.S. Constitution and the laws of this land.”

The crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Despite the public outcry, the council eventually voted 7-0 to approve the plan. Residents are fighting back and have formed a group calling for the ouster of three of the council members along with the town mayor.

The McKinney Recall group is pushing for the removal of Mayor Bill Cox, and councilmembers Ernest Lynch, Justin Beller, and Geré Feltus. 

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The recall group has built a Facebook page calling for public support of their petition, claiming "This recall is not one issue, it is a pattern. How they spend, what they prioritize, and whether they listen."

In a separate post, they add, "That loss of confidence [in the mayor/council] concerns a broader record of representation, spending, infrastructure, transparency, and responsiveness."

Rep. Self has thrown his full support behind the effort in a video posted to his official X page Saturday.

To the citizens of McKinney, I will sign the recall petition.

What you are experiencing today — the intimidation, the bullying tactics, the threats — that’s what conservatives in Congress experience every single day in D.C.

This is your time. Just like I said at the City Council meeting, that was their time to stand tall.

This is your time to stand tall.

This is your moment of truth. This is your time for choosing.

Sign the petition. They cannot ignore the citizens of McKinney.

The council members had their chance and they chose not to listen to the people who elected them, choosing instead to plow ahead with an unpopular plan. Now, McKinney residents are exercising a powerful recourse that's available to them – and, as Self made clear, he intends to stand with them. Will other politicians have the courage to do the same?

Residents have until 5:00 PM on Saturday, September 26, 2026 to add their names. The recall petition can be found here.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/16/rep-self-wants-to-give-boot-to-mckinney-town-council-n2205675

Virginia State University mass-shooting suspect found cowering in campus closet over 14 hours after mayhem

The 19-year-old suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting at Virginia State University was found cowering in a campus closet more than 14 hours after police said he shot and wounded five people.

Camron Harris, who is not a student at the school, was nabbed while hiding inside the Seward Hall dorm around 4 p.m. Saturday by Chesterfield County police, Fox59 News reported.

Harris is now being held without bail at the county jail on four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to the outlet.

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Camron Harris, 19, is accused of shooting five people at Virginia State University early Saturday.

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The shooing took place during move-in weekend near one of the school’s dorms.

The accused gunman, who lives in Henrico about 30 miles from the university, allegedly opened fire at the campus shortly before 1:30 a.m., wounding a 20-year-old male student and four other people between the ages of 17 to 23 who were not enrolled at the school.

The victims were hospitalized after the shooting, with one treated and released.

Police have not revealed a possible motive for the gunplay.

The university was temporarily placed on lockdown after the shooting.

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Police said Harris was found hiding in a campus closet after the carnage.

The incident came amid a spate of mass shootings across the US over the weekend, including at an outdoor concert in Kentucky that left four people wounded.

Two children, ages 4 and 14, were among those shot in the Kentucky carnage.

Police said the shooting took place around 6:45 p.m. in Charles Young Park.

Also, Saturday evening in Chicago, four people were wounded, two critically, in a drive-by shooting around 7:15 on the city’s South Side, WLS reported.

Another person was killed and four wounded in Hartford, Conn., early Sunday, too, with police called to the SoulBaila nightclub on reports of bloodshed around 1:40 a.m.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/16/us-news/virginia-state-university-mass-shooting-suspect-found-cowering-in-campus-closet/

Senator Ron Johnson Reveals New Evidence in Investigation Into Dr. Fauci – Including Newly Released Text and Email

Senator Ron Johnson was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest host Jackie DeAngelis to talk about the Senate’s new evidence in the investigation into Dr. Fauci.

TGP previously reported that Dr. Fauci was issued a warning by Senator Ron Johnson for refusing to appear for a private transcribed interview after he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

Last Monday, Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released the first batch of text messages from Dr. Fauci’s Covid-era iPhone.

The text messages revealed that Fauci privately knew that the Covid vaccine caused miscarriages in pregnant women.

Fauci covered up the data that revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester.

On Sunday, Senator Johnson released additional evidence – including a text and an email.

Per Ron Johnson: On January 25, 2021, Dr. John Mascola, the then-Director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, texted Dr. Fauci: “I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester[.]”

“I am hoping Dr. Mascola will fully cooperate by talking to us and clarifying what this text means,” Ron Johnson said.

In a follow-up X post, Ron Johnson released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock.

Per Ron Johnson: Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci about personally receiving reports of patients experiencing hard to classify adverse events: “no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”

“Oddly, Dr. Anthony Fauci seemed reluctant to respond to her but felt he couldn’t ignore her,” Johnson said.

Ron Johnson discussed the newly released evidence on Sunday Morning Futures.

“Obviously, Anthony Fauci, you’ve asked him to appear voluntarily,” DeAngelis said.

“I know Todd Blanche is weighing on this, but what happens next?” DeAngelis asked.

“We are looking at our options as well, but what we are gonna continue to do is go through the documents we just received. Understand, we only got his phone a week ago. We got his diary a couple weeks ago,” Johnson said.

“They didn’t do their job. They didn’t take their responsibilities seriously, looking for safety signals and then passing those safety signals along to doctors, practitioners, and the public,” Johnson continued.

“We see time and time again these governing officials whose responsibility was to surveille for safety signals, weren’t doing their job. When they saw something, they covered it up. They kept saying, no red flags, no safety signals,” Johnson said.

“They lied through their teeth to the American public, and I can’t tell you how many people died or were permanently disabled because they didn’t have that information to make the decision themselves in terms of risk benefit,” Johnson explained.

“They were so draconian about it, and so righteous about it that the information they were imparting to the American people was accurate,” DeAngelis commented.

“When people see these text messages, when they see these emails and they realize that the red flags were raised, and they were highlighted, they just say to themselves why couldn’t Dr. Fauci communicate this to the American people, so that each individual could make a decision regarding the vaccine for him or herself?” DeAngelis asked.

“The other question they ought to ask is why is the legacy media continuing to cover up and apologize for Anthony Fauci?” Johnson asked.

“We know that he invoked the 5th Amendment 111 times, but they show a side of Dr. Fauci that was very self-important, that was very focused on his own role within the Covid-19 pandemic and how he appeared to people,” DeAngelis commented.

“He’s a megalomaniacal narcissist and that’s all he was really concerned about. I mean, asking his employees to apply for awards that put over a million dollars in his pocket as he was using that power and control to scaremongering, to shut down our economy, to destroy people’s lives, to destroy people’s businesses,” Johnson said.

Watch:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/senator-ron-johnson-reveals-new-evidence-investigation-dr/

City in Anti-2A State Has Seven Times the Murders of Cities in State That Respects Gun Rights

When it comes to the Second Amendment, Florida and Illinois are almost polar opposites, with the former state considered one of the most respectful of gun rights.

But when it comes down to crime, one state’s got it far worse than the other, and it isn’t even close – and the answers may have people at Everytown, Giffords and Brady United throwing things. According to a study comparing the first six months of 2026 to the first six months of 2025 by the Major Cities Chiefs’ Association, Chicago had 211 murders in the first six months of 2026, compared to 29 for Miami, Orlando and Tampa combined.

That’s got Chicago on the wrong end of a 7-to-1 ratio when it comes to homicide. To make it worse, Chicago’s murders had increased from the same time period in 2025, when there were 199 homicides. In that same timeframe, the three Florida cities had 30 homicides total.

Now, according to the grades Illinois got from Everytown and Giffords, you think that state wouldn’t be having a lot of murders, and Chicago, which has strict gun laws of its own (as does Cook County, which Chicago is part of) would be quite peaceful, but the data from the association doesn’t show that.

Now, let’s look at Florida, a state that Giffords and Everytown grade very low in terms of gun laws.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “constitutional carry” into law in April 2023, despite taking heat from the Biden administration for doing so. An appeals court in the state also shot down a ban on young adults under the age of 21 from carrying firearms.

Florida is also a state where self-defense isn’t automatically considered a dirty word, and in more than one case, carjackers and burglars have a lot of thinking to do when they want to try something. Forget the cops, the real risk is the crooks run into an armed would-be victim!

https://thelibertydaily.com/city-anti-2a-state-has-seven-times-murders/

The Ayatollahs’ Election Gamble

Tehran believes regime change in Washington will allow the ayatollahs and their terrorist cults to survive … and then get a nuclear weapon.

In the last four months, several powerful actors have emerged on the U.S. political landscape. Their agendas could affect the November U.S. midterm elections and undermine America’s war on Iran’s terror regime.

Most notable, and undeniable, is the Islamist-Communist-Socialist Bund (ICSB).

ICSB stalwarts worship Hamas, the Palestinian terror cult. Hamas, acting with Tehran’s knowledge and backing, planned and executed the unforgivable Oct. 7 massacres. Hamas thugs beheaded babies. Their wanted a mega-atrocity — headlines that guaranteed an ugly urban war. Yet American ICSB cultists deny Hamas’ murders.

They deny Hamas was following orders. Hamas is an Iranian proxy. For decades, Iran has supplied Hamas’ killers with money, weapons and diplomatic cover. Ayatollah Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel and the defeat of America. So its premier proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis — wage war on both.

Yet the most stridently inhuman members of the Democratic Socialists of America stage pro-Hamas demonstrations, demand Israel’s destruction and — with rhetorical heat — call for Donald Trump’s removal.

Immediately, DSA media operatives quickly assure us the speaker meant radical Democrats taking control of the House. We mean impeach Trump. Political removal!

But Trump has faced repeated assassination attempts. Iran openly targets Trump for assassination. After the recent NATO summit, President Trump faced what the Secret Service and CIA regarded as a credible assassination threat likely directed by Iran.

Tehran says Trump ordered the January 2020 killing of Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of several hundred U.S. military personnel in attacks throughout the Middle East.

Trump sticks in the throat of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fanatics. He is the only U.S. president in the last 47 years to directly counter Ayatollah Iran’s terrorist and criminal regime and attack its nuclear weapons program. Trump understands that fanatic ayatollahs and their loyalist killers are like classic mobsters. They understand one thing only: violent threats directly targeting them.

So — target Trump. And behold, pro-ayatollah political actors dot the landscape. Consider Hasan Piker an “internet personality” with an estimated 2 million followers. Piker has said America deserved 9/11 — yes, deserved a mass murder attack by fanatic Islamic terrorists. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says this personality is a major influence in the Democratic Party. Piker hangs out with Michigan’s new Democrat senatorial candidate, Abdul El-Sayed.

How did Piker gain notoriety? How did he gain a fortune somewhere between $2 and $8 million? These are fair questions to ask.

Do we confront bought and paid for propagandists and political operatives? For at least 30 years, Iran has tried to support left-wing and Islamist academic toffs in the U.S. and Europe. Now it appears the academies have produced a bumper crop of pro-Tehran political warriors, what I call the ICSB.

Communist China plays a similar game, buying propagandists and politicians with the goal of weakening U.S. will.

IRGC fanatics have reason to believe the U.S. lacks spine — the will to persist. President Jimmy Carter let Iran’s shah fall because he felt guilty about the CIA. Cold War-era Russian propaganda and leftist media in the U.S. and Europe amplified the guilt trip. The Obama administration practiced appeasement with cash. Once upon a time, President Barack Obama vowed to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons quest; instead, he gave the ayatollahs billions.

The end of August marks the fifth anniversary of the Biden administration’s Afghanistan bugout. That fiasco convinced IRGC fanatics America can’t even handle a withdrawal, much less a tough fight — at least an America led by leftist Democrats.

I wrote this in June: Tehran’s remnant nut fanatic regime bets “bold lies, complemented and amplified by the Western media’s addiction to histrionic headlines and U.S. 2026 election turmoil, will buy it time. Buy it time to see if it can cling to power in Iran and maintain its Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi proxy forces.”

Tehran believes regime change in Washington will allow the ayatollahs and their terrorist cults to survive … and then get a nuclear weapon.

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/129891-the-ayatollahs-election-gamble-2026-08-12