Iran’s top Shiite cleric has issued a chilling religious ruling targeting President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Critics are warning that the act amounts to state-sanctioned incitement to terrorism.
Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the Islamic Republic’s most influential clerics, issued a “fatwa” on Sunday.
Shirazi declared that Trump and Netanyahu are “warlords” and “moharebs,” or enemies of God, under Islamic law.
In Iran, that designation carries the gravest punishments imaginable: execution, crucifixion, amputation, or exile.
“Those who threaten the leadership and integrity of the Islamic Ummah are to be considered warlords,” Makarem proclaimed in the decree, calling on Muslims around the world to take a stand.
The ruling ended with a prayer for protection from “these enemies” and the swift return of the Mahdi, the apocalyptic figure in Shiite end-times theology.
The fatwa arrives in the wake of the U.S.-Israel offensive that devastated Iran’s nuclear infrastructure during the 12-Day War.
The campaign that saw Iran’s top scientists eliminated, missile sites flattened, and weapons development programs obliterated in a joint Israeli-American operation.
British-Iranian commentator Niyak Ghorbani condemned the ruling.
Ghorbani called the “fatwa” a direct escalation from Iran’s regime and a sign of its global ambitions for religiously driven violence.
In a post on X, Ghorbani warned:
“The West must realise: the Islamic Republic is not only targeting its own people — it is preparing for global violence in the name of religion.”
President Trump had issued a clear warning following the conflict: If Iran resumed enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels, the U.S. would respond with further military force.
The fatwa suggests Iran’s hardline religious establishment has no intention of backing down, and may be doubling down on threats to Western leaders.
This isn’t the first time the Islamic Republic has used fatwas to paint a target on the backs of its enemies.
In 1989, a similar decree against author Salman Rushdie led to decades of violence, including the assassination of his Japanese translator and an attack in 2023 that left Rushdie permanently blinded in one eye.
The clerical regime’s invocation of religious law to justify potential attacks on Western leaders underscores what many experts have been warning for years: Iran is not simply a regional problem; it’s a global one.
And the threat it poses isn’t just nuclear.
It’s ideological, spiritual, and explicitly aimed at anyone who dares stand in its way.
In other words, an open invitation for terrorists.
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