Fatwa against Donald Trump? Shia Cleric's 'Red Line' on the US President for 'threatening' Iran's supreme leader Khamenei | Today news

An Iranian clergy, Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, a senior Marja in the Shia hierarchy, declared that anyone who harms Ayatollah Khamenei deserves the death penalty. His statement comes following a question about US President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric against the highest leader of Iran, following the recent 12-day conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States. Fatwa against Donald Trump? According to Tehran Times, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi declared in a written note: “Any regime or individual who threatens the Islamic Ummah leaders and acts on these threats qualifies as a Muharib.” Under Shia Islamic jurisprudence, a ‘Muharib’ is defined as someone who rewards armed rebellion, terrorism, violent crimes or other illegal acts that spread fear and disorder in society. The prescribed punishment for such offenses is death. The remarks of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi are interpreted as a ‘Fatwa’, a religious edict, added the Tehran Times report. Iran’s Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani and the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Iraq published similar statements as Fatwas. Trump’s ‘threats’ against Iran’s Khamenei 1. Accusation of the defeat and denial of Iran’s victory claims Donald Trump publicly challenged Khamenei’s allegation that Iran had the victory over Israel and the US and called it a ‘lie’ and said, ‘You beat Hell.’ He accused Khamenei of spreading falsehoods over the outcome of the war, demanding that Iran’s military and nuclear capabilities be severely damaged by American strikes. Claims of the destruction of Iran’s nuclear sites Trump have repeatedly argued that the American forces “eradicated” three important Iranian nuclear facilities (Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz) during the conflict. He insisted that these strikes had a devastating battle for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, despite some intelligence reports that were only a temporary setback. Donald Trump saved Khamenei’s life from murdering a striking recognition, and he revealed that he knew exactly where Khamenei had sheltered during the conflict and that Israeli and American powers deliberately prevented him from killing him and saying, “I saved him from a very ugly and unilateral death.” Trump mourns that Khamenei does not “thank” him for saving his life. The threat of bombarding Iran as core activities is resumed, Donald Trump warned that the US would certainly cease Iran if Tehran resumes uranium enrichment or core activities that pose a threat. He did not exclude future military action against Iran’s core websites if necessary. 5. The cessation of sanction relief due to Khamenei’s statements Trump revealed that he was working to remove sanctions against Iran to help the recovery, but immediately dropped all attempts at Khamenei’s “statement of anger, hatred and disgust”. He criticized Khamenei’s tone and called it ‘blatant and foolish’, and blamed it for the collapse of potential diplomatic progress. 6. Warning Iran to re -join the world order or face worse consequences, warned Trump Iran that, unless it “returns to the world order flow”, the conditions for the country would worsen and describe it as a burnt, inflated country, without any future, a demarcated military, a horrible economy and death around them. ” He urged the Iranian leadership to adopt a more conciliatory approach and say, “You often get more with honey than you do with vinegar.” 7. When he commanded Israel to abort a large planned strike that Trump revealed that he had ordered Israeli aircraft to return from a planned ‘biggest attack of the war’, which he said would have caused significant Iranian casualties. He claims to have prevented Israel from delivering a “final knockout” stroke for Iran. What is a fatwa and how serious is it? A Fatwa is an interpretation of Islamic law issued by a Marja. It is binding for all Muslims, which means that even if Islamic governments are unable to act, individual Muslims must ensure its maintenance. A well -known example of states that do not act on a fatwa, who asked individual Muslims to take matters into their own hands, is the case of Salman Rushdie. On February 14, 1989, Imam Khameini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, issued a historic Fatwa asking for the execution of Salman Rushdie, the British Indian author of Satanic verses, a novel filled with blasphemy against prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The Fatwa said: “I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the prophet and the Qur’an, and all involved in its publication that was aware of its content, is sentenced to death. Rushdie was forced to hide immediately after the fatwa was issued. He was placed under 24/7 British police protection and lived in safe homes for almost a decade. In 1989, a bomb exploded in a London hotel where Rushdie was scheduled to talk. More than three decades after the Fatwa was issued, when Rushdie came up to hide and start living more openly, the threat did not disappear, unlike the expectation of his and the police. In 2022, Rushdie was stabbed on stage in New York by an attacker who allegedly performed on the Fatwa. He has since withdrawn in seclusion.