Iran’s most senior clerics have issued a statement declaring U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserving of death in retaliation for the death of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The 88-member Assembly of Experts issued a 10-point statement in which they said killing ‘the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime’ and ‘the criminal American president’ was a religious duty that must be carried out ‘under any circumstances.’
The Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts, who are constitutionally tasked with choosing and supervising the supreme leader, wrote that the call for their assassinations and avenging the death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei was of ‘paramount’ importance.
‘It is obligatory upon any duty-bound person who gains access to these criminals to send them to hell,’ they wrote.
In another development, Iranian newspaper Hamshahri ran a front-page story featuring Trump’s face in the crosshairs of a rifle scope with a banner headline reading ‘Revenge is certain.’
