Iranian clerics have called for Donald Trump to be assassinated, branding the US President a ‘criminal’ who must be ‘sent to hell’.
Members of the Assembly of Experts also said Israel‘s ‘wicked’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be executed because the killing of both leaders is a ‘religious duty’ that ‘must not be neglected under any circumstances’. The clerics said in their statement: ‘It is obligatory upon any duty-bound person who gains access to these criminals to send them to hell,’ according to the Telegraph.
The group, who are constitutionally tasked with choosing and supervising the supreme leader, want revenge for the death of Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war.
Their headquarters in Tehran and Qom were bombed to stop it from naming a successor, according to Iranian officials. Khamenei’s son Mojtaba was appointed.
The body urged supporters of the Islamic Republic to continue mass protests ‘in the leader’s name’, because ‘the people’s presence is necessary and decisive’.
The Assembly of Experts added that they have a duty to their country and religion to assassinate ‘the criminal American president’ and ‘the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime’.
It comes despite the fact that Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, signed a peace deal aiming to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
However, the issue of Iran’s nuclear programme – the main reason why Trump began his military campaign in February – remains under negotiation for a further 60-day period.
Multiple attacks in the Persian Gulf show the danger of the Iran war again spinning out of control, even after Iran and the U.S. reached an interim deal to try and agree on a final accord to end the conflict.. On Saturday, the U.S. launched the overnight strikes in response to an Iranian drone attack on a container ship trying to leave the strait on Thursday, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the war’s uneasy ceasefire.
A majority of 63 of the 88 members of the Assembly of Experts have signed the dramatic statement.
The clerics fear Trump is just buying time to rearm as they wrote: ‘The likelihood of a renewed attack after will be very high – the matters raised in the memorandum of understanding must be resolved within the stipulated 30-day and 60-day deadlines.’