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Iranian Religious Establishment Declares Jihad Against President Trump: $42 Million Has Been Raised for His Assassination
(MEMRI) In Iran in recent days there has been an increase in explicit calls for assassinating President Trump from the Iranian regime's religious establishment due allegedly to a threat by Trump to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - even though Trump said he had actually prevented such a move. These calls are backed by fatwas issued in late June by Iranian grand ayatollahs. The fatwas stated that the punishment for Trump is the same as for a muhareb - an enemy of Allah and Islam - and that is death, and the permitting of spilling his blood. Assembly of Experts members who are close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, senior clerics and lecturers at the Howza-e Ilmiyya seminaries, and the regime's Friday preachers are explicitly calling for Trump's assassination. The regime's religious elite has also called on young Muslims and on "cells of resistance" across the world to carry out this fatwa, presenting the fight against Trump as a religious obligation that will be greatly rewarded, including with entry into Paradise. A new movement in Iran, called "Blood Covenant," claims to have raised $40 million for assassinating Trump. These calls to assassinate Trump are coming from above and being echoed in the street and through all strata of society, including in the Iranian media. The struggle is depicted not as a political clash but as an all-out religious war between Islam and the "leader of apostasy" and the "enemy of Islam," and between the messengers of Allah and the enemies of Allah.