Loading ...In an unprecedented and chilling escalation, Iran’s theocratic regime has issued a religious decree—an official fatwa—calling for the assassination of President Donald J. Trump, marking the first time in modern history that a sovereign state has openly called for the murder of a sitting or former U.S. president.
The fatwa, issued by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi—one of the most powerful clerics in Iran—goes beyond rhetoric. It is a state-sanctioned religious edict that legally and spiritually obligates followers to act. The cleric labeled Trump a mohareb—an “enemy of God”—a designation in Iran’s religious code that carries a death sentence and presents the killer as a divinely rewarded martyr.