Trump said amid Israel's strikes that he knew where the Iranian leader was hiding and that he was an "easy target."

A senior cleric in Iran has issued a fatwa declaring that anyone who threatens Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “an enemy of God,” state media has reported.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi was responding to a question about any threats made by U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Israel, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A fatwa is a ruling on how to interpret Islamic law issued by a clerical authority.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    It’s unclear how Khamenei will navigate the crisis his regime faces but as his credibility collapses

    Propaganda. How is his credibility collapsing?

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Without checking the context, Iran and their proxies got hit a bunch and turned the other cheek, so in the game theoretic sense, yes, none of their threats will be credible now.

      The conventional smart move would have been to start gradually blowing Isreali and American stuff up the moment Hazbollah was attacked. It sounds they might actually have some kind of twisted, theocratic idealism that got in the way of that.