Article in The Telegraph reports that Iran’s most senior clerics have called for the assassination of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a 10-point statement, the Assembly of Experts said the killing of “the criminal American president” and “the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime” was a religious duty.
Assassinating the two leaders – whom they described as mahdour al-dam, or deserving of death – “must not be neglected under any circumstances”.
In their call for Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu to be assassinated, the clerics wrote that avenging the blood of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who was killed on the first day of the war, remained “paramount”.
“It is obligatory upon any duty-bound person who gains access to these criminals to send them to hell,” they added.
The language read like a religious edict but stopped short of a formal fatwa, which in Shia Islam is issued by an individual cleric in his own name rather than by a group.
The Assembly of Experts is an 88-member body of clerics constitutionally tasked with choosing and supervising the supreme leader.
The statement shows how fractured the establishment has become.
Only about 63 of the body’s members signed it, and the Assembly’s secretariat distanced itself hours later.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/30/iranian-clerics-call-for-trump-assassination/