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Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi declared a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 29. A fatwa is a religious decree on a matter of Islamic law that is issued by a senior Islamic jurist.
Shirazi holds the rank of a Marja’a-e Taqlid, the highest level of the Iranian Shiite Twelver clergy, meaning one whose theological scholarship has earned him the right to be followed and emulated by acolytes, seminarians, and common people alike. The Twelver sect of Shiite Islam dominates among the senior clerical, juridical, and military ranks of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership and refers to those who follow the Twelfth Imam of Shia Islam, identify him as Islam’s messianic figure of the Mahdi, but who also believe they can hasten his return to Earth by instigating chaos and warfare on Earth.
While Shirazi issued the original fatwa against Trump and Netanyahu, the following day, on June 30, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori Hamedani, also from Qom, issued a similar fatwa that essentially supported Shirazi’s. Since then, more than 400 Shiite clerics in the theological seminary city of Qom have backed those two decrees.
Members of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, who are among the senior religious scholars teaching in Qom’s many seminaries, have supported the reference to the Islamic crime of mohareb and called Shirazi’s fatwa “necessary and timely.”
In his ruling, Shirazi stated, “Any person or regime that threatens the Leader or Marja (May God forbid) is considered a ‘warlord’ or a ‘mohareb.'”
He added: “Any cooperation or support for that enemy by Muslims or Islamic states is haram or forbidden. It is necessary for all Muslims around the world to make these enemies regret their words and mistakes.”
Islamic law (shariah) mandates the death penalty for the crime of mohareb (waging war against God). All charged with mohareb must not only be killed but, according to Quranic verse 5:33, can also face crucifixion, limb amputation, or exile.
All of this is to say that this fatwa is a very serious matter, not just for or within Iran, but because it carries with it the intent to authorize the assassination of Trump and Netanyahu anywhere in the world. While Iranian officials had threatened retaliation against Trump and other senior members of his administration for the January 2020 strike that eliminated Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, this is the first time such an actual religious edict aimed specifically at the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel has been issued by these senior Shiite clerical figures in Iran.
Adding to the instigation, according to the regime-connected Fars News Agency, an Iranian group called The Blood Covenant, which reportedly operates “under the aegis of the Iranian regime” was launched on July 4, supposedly to defend Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
According to Middle East Media Research Institute website, the Blood Covenant website features an image of President Trump in the crosshairs along with a crowd-funding appeal to reward anyone who actually does assassinate him. The group claimed already to have raised nearly $40.3 million as of July 9.
Additionally, on July 7, a state-appointed cleric in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran “announced a reward of 100 billion tomans (approximately $1.14 million) for anyone who kills Trump.” Mansour Emami, the official Iranian provincial director of the Islamic Propagation Organization of West Azerbaijan, offered the reward for “anyone who brings the head of Trump.”
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported on yet another public campaign to raise money to be awarded for the assassination of President Trump. An online website that is possibly run by Hossein Abbasifar — who appears to have worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the regime’s main media propaganda outlet — also promoted a multimillion-dollar bounty as “reward for the head of the cursed Trump.”
As these calls for the assassination of President Trump continue to spread, along with monetary rewards, it’s important to recall earlier U.S. security reporting about Iranian regime targeting of not only President Trump but also other former members of his first administration. These include national security adviser John Bolton; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; former Defense Secretary Mark Esper; and Brian Hook, former U.S. special representative for Iran.
In June 2023, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on members and affiliates of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, accusing them of engaging in assassination plots against these officials and others, including dual U.S.-Iran nationals/anti-regime dissidents around the world. Whether any Iranian hit teams remain in the U.S. is a concern that has to be taken seriously.
Open calls for the assassination of the president of the United States constitute a de facto declaration of war against the U.S. They must be recognized and treated as such with measures that include terror designations, expanded sanctions and asset seizures, plus visa revocation for any Iranian regime-linked academics or media figures in the U.S.
Clare M. Lopez is the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC.
This article originally appeared in Newsmax.com.
That those despots in power in that aggressive and hostile tyrannical regime of Iran want both President Trump and the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu dead, is strong prove enough that Trump and Netanyahu that they are doing the right things in the Middle East.
President Trump needs to declare a Fagwa against the mullahs and bomb them like their FORMER nuclear weapons sites. They’ve been on Earth 49 years too long. Just kill those subhumans.
Apparently OOla does not will it.
There will be no shi it victory.
The mullahs just won’t accept it.
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…or maybe a “fartwa.”
Just kidding. They should be nuked from orbit.
Indeed.
We should liberate Iran from the Mullahs.
We should declare the place the “Democratic Republic of Persia” and warn the mullahs to CEASE their occupation of it.
…and bomb Qom.
Mossad’s next target should be Qom.
With a bomb of pig guts
Do you speak for Ambassador Kosh? His messages were always so cryptic. 🙂
Iran committed an act of war against the US when they attacked the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. We just haven’t taken them seriously. What are we waiting for? For them to assassinate a President or set off a bomb in an American city? We need to eliminate the Iranian leadership as soon as possible.
Jimmy Carter was President in 1979. Scared, confused, not a clear path and what J. Carter thought was not possible. He was not disciplined in the Art of War
Jimmuh was the third worst President in my living memory. Barebakck Hasbeen Osama was worse and Alzheimer Joketard was the worst of all, but those are VERY low bars.
A Drone to blow that Islamic Maniac to Eestsy Teensy Pieces they would need a Electric Microscope to find what’s left of him
Can we just give them John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and call it even?
Give them nothing. Instead,the word take comes to mind. They are all out of taking countries
Yet another fatwa. However there is always a faction who take this Muslim crap seriously.
One more reason to make Islam illegal in this country and arrest/deport all of them.
Trump says don’t bomb Iran’s leadership and Iran’s leaders issue a Fatwa calling for Trumps assassination. Those B-2s still ready to go?
Yup, I agree! Killing the head of a country can and should go both ways.
I think Trump has photos of their houses.
Perhaps Trump should send them a copy along with a picture of a mushroom cloud with the words “go ahead, make my day” written on them.
Khamenei needs to wake up one morning soon , yawn, stretch and open his curtains just in time to see that incoming cruise missile.
Fatheads with their fatwas – If they weren’t so lethal, they’d be comedy – GOD, they think they are obeying and worshipping GOD of the Bible? No. Their god is with a small g. Their god is lucifer-satan. Comes as an angel of light with very dark shadows. Deceiver, destroyer and will trick every last one of his beguiled and deceived worshippers.
If our GOD is YHVH of the Bible it is our job to destroy them as they have proven unwilling to cooperate and with the sole focused and indoctrinating and training their young to destroy Israel, Hebrews/Jews then the USA and the rest of the free world.
We have forsaken GOD of the Bible in these nations that dumb down and allow them in and to practice their fatwa religion which are blood oaths to destroy us.
Yes, it is a declaration of war.
Were it up to me, i’d put the leader’s coordinates on a Minuteman III.
A few well placed munitions might result in some “cancelled” fatwas!
Is this “Grand” leader kin to Bernie ?! Are they brothers ? They look alike. Check to see if Bernie has a green card.
Pull America Out of the UN and Evict the UN from America Period quit financing Terrorists
It does not matter what kind of Arabic words the terrorists use. Or the Arabic titles they give to themselves.
The factual translation for realistic understanding is that the islamic terrorists have ordered the killing of world leaders.
Simple and to the point.
Most importantly, act on it as declaration of war.
First arrest or kick out every single person who is linked to Iranian so called government.
Then hunt down every Iranian government official worldwide.
The islamic savages only understand the language of force.
They came to power by using force, terrorism and threats. And they can only be removed by using massive force.
The islamists don’t respect or follow any international rules or laws. None should be applied to them when fighting them off. Beat them in their own game using their own rules.
Negotiating with them, tolerating them or worst of all accepting them in the international field in any form is a deadly mistake. They will use the West’s weakness, kindness, stupidity and softness against us to invade and destroy us from within.
This is not a time for peace. It’s time to fight and keep fighting until there’s no more islamic terrorists left.
President Trump took care of the principal Iran threat to Israel. He can return Iran to its citizens by blockading oil shipments from Iran. No need to go to war. No need to reward American forever-war advocates who have squandered so many lives and so much treasure on fruitless regime change and nation-building. Those men and women are far bigger enemies of America than the imperial kleagle in Tehran.