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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 26, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Shortly after the fatwa was announced, Mansour Emami, the state-appointed head of Iran's official Islamic Propagation Organization... announced that a reward of 100 billion tomans (approximately $1.14 million) would be paid to anyone who "brings the head of Trump."
* On top of that, reports from inside Iran reveal that the regime and its supporters have reportedly raised more than $40 million in a crowdfunding campaign to murder Trump.
* What has the response been from the international community? Silence. Where are the liberal voices, the pro-Iran "diplomacy-first" crowd, the think tank elites who have spent years telling us that we should appease Tehran and give them billions of dollars for "peace"? Where are the so-called champions of human rights in the West, who constantly criticize Israel and the U.S. but cannot seem to say a word about an Islamic regime putting a bounty on the head of an American president?
* In the minds of Iran's clerics, a fatwa is binding, a direct command from a "representative of God" on earth. When a fatwa calls for killing a person, it is a divine order for murder, complete with the promise of heavenly reward for the murderer.
* When Shirazi issued his fatwa, he did not just target Trump. He declared Trump a mohareb — an enemy of God. In the ideology of Iran's theocratic regime, this label also carries the death penalty. The person who kills Trump, in their eyes, is not just a hitman; he is a holy warrior. A martyr. A man destined for paradise, where virgins and heavenly blessings await him. It is this worldview that is now driving Iran's strategy; the danger is not just to Trump, but to every nation in the free world and to everyone who practices any religion other than Shia Islam.
* It is time for Americans to stop pretending that diplomacy will solve everything. It will not.
* Every American should support policies that will eventually lead to the fall of Iran's murderous government: it does not hesitate to kill its neighbors or even its own people... and continuing to use military force when necessary to protect American lives and interests.
* Under no circumstances should the US reward Iran with concessions. In Iran, that is seen only as weakness. It sends a message to every terrorist and tyrant in the world that the United States can be pushed to offer bribes, which are then used to build their war machines.
* If we allow such aggression go unanswered—if we allow a sitting president to be hunted with no consequences — we are only begging for more attacks.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran's theocratic system, has issued an official fatwa — a religious decree — calling for the murder of President Donald J. Trump. What makes the fatwa even more outrageous is that the regime is not just issuing threats—it has been raising money, publicly -- to pay for Trump's murder. Pictured: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gives a speech explaining the meaning of "Death to America," on November 1, 2023, televised on Iran's Channel 1. (Image source: MEMRI)

Iran's regime has crossed a line that no sovereign state has ever crossed before: it openly called for the assassination of a sitting president of the United States.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran's theocratic system, has issued an official fatwa — a religious decree — calling for the murder of President Donald J. Trump. It did not come from some fringe radical hiding in a cave. It came directly from the top of Iran's religious and political hierarchy. This is equivalent to a declaration of war. What makes the fatwa even more outrageous is that the regime is not just issuing threats—it has been raising money, publicly -- to pay for Trump's murder. It is not a joke. It is a direct, state-sanctioned call to eliminate America's leader.

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