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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,609 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:59 PM 4 hrs ago

Grand ayatollah calls for retribution after Khamenei's death

An influential Iranian cleric has called on Muslims worldwide to avenge the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian state-run news agency Tasnim reported on Sunday that Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi had declared in a religious statement, or fatwa, that "the main perpetrators of this crime" were the United States and Israel.

"Revenge is the religious duty of all Muslims in the world so that the evil of these criminals is eradicated from the Earth," the fatwa continued.

Makarem Shirazi indirectly threatened Donald Trump with death in June last year, when the US president said that Khamenei was "an easy target."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/grand-ayatollah-calls-retribution-khameneis-124319497.html

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Grand ayatollah calls for retribution after Khamenei's death (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 4 hrs ago OP
trump says its ok to kidnap or murder heads of state if he doesn't like them. has he not heard of karma? msongs 4 hrs ago #1
The US definitely assassinated a head of state and there's no point in legal parsing of the words. Baitball Blogger 3 hrs ago #4
Trump said he left "instructions" in the event he is assassinated. AloeVera 4 hrs ago #2
Never saw that coming. Baitball Blogger 3 hrs ago #3

msongs

(73,458 posts)
1. trump says its ok to kidnap or murder heads of state if he doesn't like them. has he not heard of karma?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:00 PM
4 hrs ago

Baitball Blogger

(52,071 posts)
4. The US definitely assassinated a head of state and there's no point in legal parsing of the words.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:55 PM
3 hrs ago

We can do what we always do when someone gets shot in this country and claim that Trump is insane. Of course, to sell that explanation properly it would help to 25th him. He might thank us for it later.

AloeVera

(4,133 posts)
2. Trump said he left "instructions" in the event he is assassinated.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:10 PM
4 hrs ago

Warning Iran would be totally obliterated, per these instructions. An entire country...

Because of course HIS life is worth the lives of 90 million of the "others". But it wouldn't be "just" 90 million. It would be WWIII.

He is literally insane and he is running the entire world.

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