A senior cleric in Iran has issued a fatwa declaring that anyone who threatens Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “an enemy of God,” state media has reported.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi was responding to a question about any threats made by U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Israel, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A fatwa is a ruling on how to interpret Islamic law issued by a clerical authority.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Well that’s… bold.

    You’re just a cleric dude. I’m sure Trump would have taken out Khameni if it wouldn’t have turned the entire region into a conflagration.

    edit: lol, if I had the entire power and might of the US military and some motherfucker puts out a hit on me? That dude is dead. Dead before the weekend is up. I’m sure Salman Rushdie could have used that sort of power but now he’s missing an eye because of those insane motherfuckers.

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      4 days ago

      Killing Khamenei would be a terrible mistake. One of his son who probably would be his successor is even more extreme and would remove the fatwa Khamenei used to prohibit the building and using of nukes

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        The one thing Trump’s decision told the world was every country should be building nukes as fast as possible and keep quiet about it.