Tasnim News Agency, the IRGC-linked state broadcaster, aired an interview on 17 May in which Ebrahim Azizi confirmed the €50-million Majlis bounty bill on Donald Trump, telling state television that the government would be obligated to pay the sum if any "natural or legal person carries out this religious and ideological mission"1. The bill remains under parliamentary review rather than voted. Azizi chairs the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, the body that announced Saturday's Hormuz toll mechanism (Event 0).
Iran International, the London-based Persian-language outlet, first surfaced the bill on 15 May as alleged legislation working through committee. Tasnim's 17 May broadcast moves the same bill on the record from an Iranian state outlet, with a sitting Majlis committee chairman corroborating the €50m figure and the payment-obligation language. The single-source upgrade matters because state-media corroboration is the threshold most foreign chancelleries treat as the move from rumour to parliamentary fact.
The Majlis security committee is now the legislative pole of a two-track Iranian foreign policy. Azizi's same committee announced the Hormuz toll mechanism (Event 0) and is now framing the bounty bill as a binding state obligation conditional on assassination, while Abbas Araghchi's diplomatic channel through Islamabad runs the accommodation track. The bill's parliamentary-review status, rather than a floor vote, preserves the threshold below which civilian negotiation remains technically possible for any Western counterpart. A floor vote would close that channel. The signal Tasnim is broadcasting is that the threshold can be crossed at parliamentary discretion, not external pressure.
