Iranian clerics call for assassination of Trump and Netanyahu

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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/

Apparently so.

Religious dictatorships, fatwas and religious fanaticism seem fair and understandable as long at they are directed against Trump and Netanyahu.

If you condemn it for one side, but are ok with it for the other, then you are not a person of principle, but a person who advocates for violence.

Didn’t Trump say “a whole civilisation will die tonight” or something along those lines about the Iranians? Thats a worse thing to say imo

All of them are lunatic men, who will probably say more unhinged shit about each other. I don’t wish death on anyone but I wasn’t sad when the Iranian leader was killed and I certainly wont be said when Trump and Netanyahu die either 🤷‍♀️

People don't take Trump's rhetoric seriously anymore unless he actually commands his officials to do something. You have to go by what he does not what he says. And speaking of violent rhetoric, similar things have been said on the Iranian side like the chanting in parliament last November of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel".

This call by the Iranian clerics for the double assassinations is somewhat different as it has been dressed up as a religious duty. This gives instruction for Islamist extremists around the world to attempt to murder Trump & Netanyahu.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511042838

Have you forgotten? Trump and Netenyahu have already done it.

Of course the Iranian leaders say awful things and they are abysmal people, the way they treat their people is barbaric, I’m not surprised by anything they say.

Trump and Netanyahu and their governments are held to a higher standard with what they say because they are leaders of democracies. Both, still are despicable men. Not taking Trump’s rhetoric seriously because he is Trump is not an excuse, if our prime minister said he would end a civilisation, I can’t imagine he’d have a job in the morning.

Trump and Netanyahu had the Iranian supreme leader assassinated. The CIA and Mossad have been assassinating leaders for decades and installing their own governments. Does world history not get taught anymore?

It’s not the first time they have said it. They first said it in 2020, and yet the idiot is still alive. Much like Trump’s idiotic blustering, I’d take it with a bag of salt.

No I haven't forgotten but I'm surprised so many people on here are basically shrugging their shoulders over an instruction to murder by a supposed group of religious clerics.

The timing seems especially surprising - not at a time war is starting but at a time when it is supposedly ending with Iran and the US both having signed the Memorandum of Understanding and sending negotiators to discuss peace.

If Trump or Netanyahu get assassinated as a result of the Iranian clerics and their religious edict, God knows what would happen but it wouldn't be peace! It really would unleash hell onto the world.

Take it with a pinch of salt or even a bag until some religious nutters decide it is their duty to follow the instruction to kill Trump or Netanyahu.

And I think it fell short of actually being a fatwa. This time.

I think people shrug because there is no way this is going to be carried out ( apart from in an AI generated Lego video). Also because it feels like there are no good guys involved, the Iranian regime are tyrannical and murder their own people to force conformity, Netanyahu is responsible for the ongoing genocide of the Gazan people, Trump is well Trump enough said there really.

Whilst I don’t wish anyone dead, if the Iranians were to enforce “regime change” on the U.S. and kidnap Trump. They could have a photo shoot of him in the back seat a la Manduro. Sadly that would lead to Vance 😱

No I haven't forgotten but I'm surprised so many people on here are basically shrugging their shoulders over an instruction to murder by a supposed group of religious clerics.

So politicians can openly call for the destruction of entire populations, their words can be followed by tens of thousands of deaths and mass starvation, and plenty of people will bend over backwards to pretend that it's actually just a sad coincidence, nobody meant to kill all of those innocent people ☹️ but this is what surprises you? 😖

@EleanorMc67 has already said she wouldn’t condone it and if you think the American state hasn’t organised assassinations, you are naive.

The world would be a little more sane without either of them

I’m not sure it’s good enough to say “it’s doesn’t matter what Trump says because we don’t take it seriously” while also condemning what others have said. Trump is the one who has killed the leader of a foreign country and said a civilisation will die. He is not morally superior.

I don’t think what the clerics have said is acceptable. I also do not think what Trump says is acceptable.

I’m surprised so many people on here are basically shrugging their shoulders over an instruction to murder

Murderous regime continuous to be murderous. It’s not like before today I really thought they wished Trump well.

You’re shrugging your shoulders over Trump.

I always disagree with one nation going over and taking out leadership of another nation, so for that reason I would hate to see this. However, there is a bit of an eye for an eye going on here. The whole bunch of them (all the leaders of these nations) need to learn basic diplomacy skills and be better people.

Also, I hate to say it, but I think this feeds into the US leadership's personality style, as defenders of "truth" against all the odds, when they are directly creating the hardships, fomenting and flauting the laws of hte land.

I don’t have any sympathy for extreme islamists, but I’d struggle to have any for Trump and Netanyahu either

Can't imagine why a couple of peace loving philanthropists like that would have enemies.

Well said

Excellent post.

See a regime kill thousands of innocent civilians including women and children and call for the destruction of an entire people - “That’s fine, you have my support”

See a group of clerics call for the death of their enemies’ leaders - “ WhY aReN’t PeOpLe OuTrAgEd????”

I don’t find any kind of religious fanaticism acceptable but this is predictable.

Trump and Netanyahu ordered the air strikes that killed the supreme leader of Iran. It’s not a surprise that (in the absence of legal recourse ) the response is they need to be killed. It’s their go to response for any problems, protestors or dissidents.

I would be shocked if they were successful to be fair.

Blowing up apartments full of sleeping families because 1 low ranking member of Hamas might be in the vicinity - fine, what else are they supposed to do, Israel has the right to defend themselves.

Call for the deaths of the leaders responsible for the death of their leader - how very dare they!!!

Either you are pro violence and assinations or you aren't. And a heck of a lot of posters here have cheered on assinations with scores of innocent lives being lost in the process(collateral damage anyone?) but then are shocked when Iran want to do the same thing to the people who threaten their country with total destruction?

Let's just hope that Trump or Netanyahu don't go anywhere with lots of people around them(or human shields as they are commonly known on this board) or there could be a lot more 'collateral damage' to come.