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/

OP... Trump has already ordered the killing of the Iranian leader which happened...and some of his family died in those strikes too.

Its also been clarified that a whole school of Iranian kids were killed in a US airstrike specifically because Trump didn't use up to date maps - which he would have known about if he'd worked with decent military experts instead of Hegseth and that frat bro crowd.

He also kidnapped and imprisoned the Venezuelan leader and his wife.

What other response would you think he'd get?

TBF, there is not a lot to discuss re Iranian clerics calling for the death of Trump and Netanyahu. I can't find much about it on my web.

Probably because people aren't as obsessed with Israel as some posters would like to portray is so blatantly false if you look at the number of anti Israel posts on this board that it's laughable.

Every thread on here gets turned into Israel bashing - quite apart from the threads wholly dedicated to "the reality of what Israel is doing" (now on part 7). Note that there are zero threads on the reality of what Iran is doing. And it's not for lack of material considering there is the IRGC and also their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.

Case in point -this thread. It's about the Iranian clerics but look who is getting most of the criticism. Same old, same old.

Who on the thread has waded in saying that US pastors and their idiocy are a good thing?

Are you seriously blaming Trump personally for the maps not being up to date?

It's just more whataboutery anyway.

Iranian clerics calling for assassinations ... nothing to see here!

I think the point being made is that just because you are supposedly “religious”, it doesn’t stop you from making death threats. Across the board.

And Israel making them too don’t forget.

@Twiglets1 Talk to the parents of the dozens of men who've been blown up on boats in the Caribbean – no trial, just an assumption of wrong doing leading to summary execution – about whether Trump is a murderer.

Why are you so excised about words but not about deeds?

I think most people agree on Iran though, that the leadership is horrendous and the Iranian people all have our sympathy.

Israel (not the citizens) imo pretend to be some beacon of peace and good morals but they are not.

I personally understand Hamas and Hezbollah are a huge problem and are evil evil bastards, and totally get why Israel want’s rid of them (as should the rest of the world)
People are angry with what Israel have done to Gaza, what the “settlers” are allowed to get away with in the West Bank and now whats happened in Lebanon. Netanyahu is a blood thirsty criminal who doesn’t give a shit about international laws or the lives of innocent civilians, they should be better than a terrorist group, but they are not really are they? (IMO)

Nobody. And I don't think anyone has said Iranian clerics calling for death is good.

The conversation is just opening up I think. Into general religious of today calling for people to be killed.

Israel have been brought into it because Katz made a retaliatory death threat to the Iranian leader. Or are you going to ignore that small problem?

I think that this illustrates the dilemma when international norms are abandoned.

Are people on this thread really saying they would support the assassination of the leaders of two of our closest allies? And the only two of our allies who would have the skills or resources to support us if the UK was threatened? Fuck sake, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

I haven’t seen anyone say that? Just that they won’t care when they die

I wasn't even aware of it when I started the thread but after you raised it I agreed that Katz was very wrong to make a retaliatory death threat. It could be harmful to the peace process in a similar way that the Iranian clerics call for assassination could be harmful to the peace process.

I haven't ignored the mention of Katz so why are you implying I'm trying to ignore it?

That's for sure.

It's the basic premise of so many religions. Christianity is based on they go up, others burn in hell.

When Evangelical Christians in mega churches pray for the Rapture, they are essentially praying for all non Christians to be killed. Just today on these boards I had a Christian tell me I would likely burn.

I think by saying you won't care if they get assassinated it follows that you don't have a problem with it.

I said people won’t care when they die, nothing about assassination.

They don't seem to give a shit do they? The US and Israel are enemies not allies to many on this board and you see that across every thread.

You get a wider range of views on other boards so I'm guessing you don't come to this Conflict in the Middle East one very often.

But this thread is about them being assassinated not dying peacefully in their sleep.

I don’t know an awful lot about Iranian clerics but my understanding is that only hardline loyalists get elected and the reformist/ moderate clerics are vetted out. It would make sense that the rhetoric would reflect the make up of the assembly.

I suppose it is effectively a mouthpiece of the state but they can say things that would be controversial for the government to openly state. Plausible deniability whilst still getting your message across.

Oh please 😂

Because you have now tried to imply that this thread has descended into an Israel bashing thread. It’s not bashing Israel when Israel are now equally involved in making threats.

He has!

Well they are a theocracy. Everything they do is supposed to be about their religion.