Iran’s senior religious establishment has escalated its confrontation with the United States and Israel by calling for the killing of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as diplomatic channels between Washington and Tehran remain formally open.
The statement, issued by members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, described both leaders as deserving death and framed their assassination as a religious obligation. The language was carefully calibrated: not quite a formal fatwa, but unmistakably clerical, ideological, and operational in intent.
For anyone thinking otherwise, the message made clear that whatever the outcome of the current negotiations, Iran has no intention of altering its long-term agenda.
According to the mullahs’ statement, the killing of Trump and Netanyahu “must not be neglected under any circumstances.” The clerics cast both men as enemies of Islam and linked their call for vengeance to the death of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, who was killed on the opening day of the recent war between Iran and the US-Israeli alliance.
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