Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[OBSERVATORIOTERRORISMO] Over the past few weeks, a new terrorist threat has emerged in Europe under the name Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya (HAYI). In just a month and a half, this Shia-oriented Islamist group has claimed responsibility for some fifteen attacks carried out in various European cities. The pattern of target selection is clear: Jewish communities and interests linked to Israel abroad.
This was already evident in their first statement, which clearly illustrated their ideological framework and the identification of their enemies:
“We will continue to threaten the United States and Israel, as well as their interests throughout the world, until we have avenged the death of every child in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and other resistant nations.”
In this narrative, the United States and Israel are presented as responsible for regional instability following the outbreak of the conflict with Iran, thus legitimizing the use of violence in response to alleged indiscriminate attacks against Muslim countries and calling on citizens sympathetic to their cause to commit violent acts on their behalf.
The series of actions claimed by HAYI began on March 9 with an attack on a synagogue in Liège, where several individuals threw explosive devices at the building's facade. Since then, the group has claimed responsibility for a series of low-intensity, limited-sophistication actions, closer to symbolic sabotage intended to generate fear than to conventional terrorism. These actions include, among others, the burning of synagogues in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as the burning of ambulances in London belonging to a Jewish charity.
[FoxNews] US officials: Ex-CFO Teenie Hutchison, ex-research chief Heidi Beirich and ex-CEO Margaret Huang allegedly kept scheme secret
A pair of former top executives at the Southern Poverty Law Center used a network of checking accounts to secretly funnel $4.1 million to extremists, including one nicknamed "The Aryan Barbarian," in a long-running pay-to-hate scheme, federal officials told Fox News Digital.
The SPLC's former chief financial officer Teenie Hutchison and ex-Intelligence Project chief Heidi Beirich allegedly created the accounts at Synovus Bank in 2008, making the beleaguered nonprofit’s trusted bank a hub for diverting supporters' donations to sketchy groups, sources said. The network ultimately supported secret payments to as many as 50 confidential "field sources," called "Fs," embedded within extremist organizations around the country. Some 13 field sources have so far been identified in court filings.
"The SPLC found its niche, and its leaders built a fiefdom with donations they got like crazy," former NYPD intelligence official, attorney and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro said.
A spokesperson for Synovus Bank told Fox News Digital that the lender, based in Columbus, Ga., is working with federal investigators in the "ongoing investigation."
"As a matter of policy, we do not comment on specific client relationships," the spokesperson said. "We have cooperated fully with the ongoing investigation and will continue to do so."
Hutchison, Beirich and Huang didn't respond to repeated requests for comment. In late May, the SPLC filed a motion to dismiss the case. On June 9, days after the U.S. government filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC, the nonprofit's interim president and chief executive officer, Bryan Fair, denied any wrongdoing by the SPLC during a fiery hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
The allegations sit at the center of a federal case accusing the SPLC of bank fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Sources familiar with the investigation say additional charges will likely be filed against individual executives and former executives of the nonprofit.
Fox News Digital's investigation unpacks the government’s theory of the alleged operation through the traditional three stages of money laundering: placement, layering and integration. In the first stage of placement, U.S. officials say Hutchison and Beirich created and controlled a hidden financial infrastructure at SPLC that became the entry point for $4.1 million in allegedly illicit payments made to so-called field sources.
In the second stage, layering involves moving money through multiple accounts, transactions and entities, like a series of bank accounts Hutchison and Beirich allegedly set up for fake companies, designed to obscure the money's origin. Finally, in the third stage, integration occurs when the proceeds or products of an operation become absorbed into legitimate activities, like the organization's "Extremist Files," and become difficult to distinguish from ordinary business operations.
According to federal prosecutors, the SPLC's alleged operation involved all three stages.
Former SPLC Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang allegedly signed a letter acknowledging the operation to Synovus bank officials in September 2021 before ending her tenure at the SPLC in July 2025.
SPLC supporters have characterized the payment recipients as "informants," and they included a right-wing extremist behind the infamous 2017 "Unite the Right" protests in Charlottesville, Va.
"The government can run informants," said Mauro. "Private industry cannot."
The new revelations show the federal investigation of the SPLC is significantly larger than initially reported and was orchestrated at the organization's highest level. Beirich was previously believed to be involved in the alleged payments, but this is the first time federal officials have confirmed her involvement.
The new details about the SPLC case emerge as the Trump administration's Justice Department intensifies scrutiny of influential nonprofit organizations. Earlier this week, Fox News Digital reported exclusively that federal prosecutors launched a grand jury investigation into Shanghai-based Marxist tech mogul Neville Roy Singham over possible illegality in his funding of left-wing activist groups. Together, the two federal investigations signal an aggressive effort by the administration to examine whether certain organizations are using their nonprofit status to conceal financial operations.
More on this report from yesterday, a variation on the usual sad tale: probable cat lady falls for the usual love jihad scam, wires lotsa money to her beloved jihadi in Gaza, gets arrested. One of these days the IDF will drone zap him, and that will be the end of that.
[IsraelTimes] Catherine Washburn allegedly sent $30,000 raised for humanitarian purposes to member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group who bragged about taking part in Hamas-led attack
A woman from New York State was arrested on Tuesday for sending funds to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, the latest in a string of alleged terror offenses by anti-Zionist activists in the US.
Catherine Washburn, 37, sent more than $30,000 in funds she had raised for purported humanitarian purposes to a member of the terror group, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Washburn, a resident of Irondequoit, near the city of Rochester in western New York State, is an organizer with the Direction Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation,
...we have no record of it, which suggests it’s her very own organization, with no other members…
the complaint said.
The group is an murderous Moslem anti-Israel organization that rejects peaceful protests in favor of "direct action," an activist term for illegal acts such as sabotage and property destruction.
The complaint, filed by an FBI agent investigating the case, said Washburn had raised funds for a man in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , identified by the initials H.H., starting in November 2024.
The man told Washburn in February 2025 that he was a member of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) and had attacked IDF troops, but she continued transferring him funds until April of this year, the investigator said.
Washburn said in a February message to H.H., "If I lived in Gaza, I would fight alongside the resistance."
H.H. told her he was a member of PIJ’s military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, and that he had joined the October 7, 2023, terrorist invasion of Israel. Washburn thanked him for participating in the attack and praised his bravery.
The alleged terrorist added that he had taken IDF equipment from Israel’s Erez Crossing "after attacking and killing them," and sent her a video of himself holding an anti-tank rocket launcher with Hebrew writing on the side.
"Oh yes, good job," Washburn said. "I wish every day were October 7."
"I hate the Jews very much," she said.
She also told him, "I wish Israel would disappear," "Every inch of Paleostine must be returned," and, "Only one state: Paleostine."
H.H. also sent her photos of himself brandishing pistols and assault rifles and the pair discussed "missions" he had been carrying out in northern Gaza, an apparent euphemism for terror operations.
Washburn said she was "proud" to have earned the terrorist’s trust, and he told her, "Catherine, you really were fighting alongside me, my love."
After H.H. said he had seen a bushwhack against Israeli troops, Washburn said, "I feel excited every time I see news of the killing of an occupation soldier."
In other messages, she asked him to "approve" a shirt she had designed showing terror group logos. She sold the shirts as part of her fundraising, the complaint said. Washburn also offered to send the terrorist topographical maps that he could use to target Israelis.
Some of the conversations took place in Arabic, and the messages appeared to use codewords, such as substituting "work" for "combat," and using green heart emojis to refer to Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... and black hearts for PIJ.
After she found out about his terrorist affiliation, Washburn posted an image of the alleged terrorist on Facebook, seeking donations to "help him support his family of 9." She also sent a link to the donation page around on WhatsApp, the complaint said.
The donations were raised through the Australia-based platform Chuffed, which says it is a fundraising platform for "the world’s social justice movements." Chuffed did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Washburn opened a bank account for the donations, which received 1,302 contributions. Washburn used the funds to buy cryptocurrency on Coinbase and transferred the funds to a crypto wallet belonging to H.H., the complaint said.
Between October 2025 and April 2026, Washburn made 80 cryptocurrency transfers to H.H. amounting to $30,116.
She joked about being imprisoned, saying, "Based on my passed [sic.] fundraising and posting Im [sic.] gonna get put away for a few life times," followed by a laughing emoji. The message indicated she knew the funds were for PIJ and were therefore illegal, the investigator said.
The pair’s discussions of ammunition, weapons and H.H.’s "missions" also indicated her intent to support terrorist activities, the complaint said.
"Your assistance to us here in Gaza is fighting in the path of Allah," H.H. told her, to which she said, "Allah willing. This battle is a sacred battle."
She also said she had been in touch with other murderous Moslems from Hamas.
Funding PIJ is illegal in the US because the group is a US-designated foreign terrorist organization.
It wasn’t clear how Washburn had first connected with the alleged terrorist, although she told him that she had previously seen videos on his Instagram account, which has 319,000 followers. His Facebook page has 565,000 followers.
On social media, H.H. has shared fundraisers purportedly for his family, published videos about hardships in Gaza such as food shortages, and posted in support of the activist flotillas meant to break Israel’s blockade. His social media does not give any indication that he is a combatant.
The alleged terrorist told Washburn that he used social media to "portray myself as a peaceful individual, rather than a resistance fighter," and that he had deleted images of himself invading Israel to evade being caught at checkpoints.
Washburn’s Instagram account links to 10 fundraisers that she said were meant to help Paleostinian families in Gaza.
"Donating directly to families in Gaza saves lives," her account’s biography says.
Washburn’s Facebook account identified her as a former stay-at-home mother. She had raised funds for causes such as dog shelters before the start of the Gaza war.
She first posted about Gaza in the weeks after the October 2023 attack, followed up with posts sharing PIJ and Hezbollah videos, and had participated in anti-Israel street protests in Rochester.
At least one other activist, an Irish protester who joined a Gaza flotilla and has more than 200,000 followers on social media, shared H.H.’s fundraiser. He also appeared on the account of a Gaza influencer with 1.3 million followers.
Washburn was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated terror group and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The allegations against Washburn mirrored another case filed by federal authorities in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, last month in which the suspect allegedly raised funds, purportedly for humanitarian purposes, but instead directed the money to Hamas or to his own personal expenses.
The schemes appeared similar to the Holy Land Foundation, a group prosecuted in the US in the 2000s for soliciting charitable donations that were diverted to Hamas. The so-called Holy Land Five, who were imprisoned, remain popular figures in the anti-Zionist movement.
Another case announced in a New York court in May, against an alleged Iranian operative, also illustrated how terror groups have used cryptocurrency to facilitate terrorism in the US, Canada and Europe.
US federal authorities have also charged anti-Zionist activists with terror-related offenses in Michigan and California in the past year.
A right-wing anti-Israel group was charged with plotting an attack on a White House event last month.
Israeli communities near Judea and Samaria are warning that the next October 7-style threat may not come through tunnels or pickup trucks.
It may come by drone.
According to Ynet, local officials say dozens of drones have recently been found and seized by the IDF in Judea and Samaria, as Israel’s security establishment tracks Iranian efforts to expand attack-drone capabilities from Lebanon into the area.
The fear: small FPV drones carrying explosives — the same kind of battlefield weapon now seen across the Russia-Ukraine war.
One local official warned that if a drone crosses the seam line, it could reach Tel Aviv in six minutes.
Posted by: badanov ||
07/02/2026 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1790 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies
#1
The answer is to kill 10 of them for every one of ours. If it doesn't work, raise it to 100.
As if the caliph of Al Qaeda’s caliphate in Syria would give anything more than a symbolic share of the governance of the thing. Especially when so many of the Kurds are godless communists and not proper Al Qaeda Muslims at all.
[Rudaw] Syria's electoral body on Wednesday announced the names of 70 people appointed by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa
…that should be “interim” in scare quotes, since any transition will be to a more totalitarian Sharia rule, not to a more inclusive democracy…
to parliament, ahead of the transitional legislature's first session next week.
Again, scare quotes around transitional for the same reason.
Only few Kurds are on the list, including two allies of Sharaa, according to a politician.
Mohammad Taha al-Ahmed, head of the Higher Committee for People's Assembly Elections, announced the names at a presser in Damascus. The appointees make up one-third of the 210-member body.
The remaining politicians were chosen in indirect elections that allowed only a small part of the population to vote. Voting took place in Kurdish-held areas earlier this year, after Kurdish authorities reached an integration agreement with Damascus. The process has yet to be held in the Druze-majority province of Suwayda, which remains largely under the control of Druze fighters.
Among the three Kurds on Sharaa's list is Abdulhakim Bashar, a senior member of the Kurdish National Council (ENKS). The other two — Mustafa Abdulrahman Abdi and Yasir Sulaiman Mansour — are close allies of Sharaa. Mansour is the brother of Ahmad Hilal, deputy governor of Hasaka and Sharaa's representative for integrating the Kurdish region into the state.
Mansour is from the Mhallami tribe, whose Kurdish identity is disputed.
Nine Kurds were elected in the vote held in northeast Syria, known as Rojava.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) did not officially take part in the May vote but reportedly backed some independent candidates. Sharaa's list does not include any SDF-affiliated figures.
Kurdish officials have criticized the elections as unfair, saying Kurdish representation should be higher. Sulaiman Oso, a senior ENKS member, told Rudaw English on Wednesday that Kurds make up nearly 15 percent of Syria's population but account for only around 5 percent of the incoming parliament.
Despite his concerns over the low number of Kurdish politicians, Oso said he hoped they would succeed.
"We wish them success and I hope that they are the voices of our people in the Syria parliament and obtain Kurdish rights in the new constitution and work to make Kurdish the official language in Kurdish areas," he said.
According to Oso, the ENKS has three members in the transitional legislature, including Fasla Yusef and Ridwan Sido. He said Abdi and Mansour are considered Kurds.
The parliament will hold its first session on Monday, when the appointed members are expected to be sworn in and begin their work, including drafting a new constitution.
The head of Syria's electoral commission told news hounds Wednesday that the new legislature will focus on reviewing previous decrees, passing laws and drafting a new constitution, state news agency SANA reported.
Ahmed also said the new parliament's term will run 30 months, and is renewable.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran says sides agreed on partial release of frozen funds, US officials deny it; Washington reportedly pushing Iran to look at ‘bigger picture,’ not insist on Hormuz control
The US and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... held indirect technical talks in Doha on Wednesday, which US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... described as "very good," as American and Iranian officials said that the participants agreed to open a communication channel to ensure the terms of their memorandum of understanding are met, amid continued disagreements over its implementation.
According to Iran, the sides agreed on a partial release of billions of dollars of frozen Iranian funds, though US officials reportedly denied that such an understanding was reached.
The effort came two weeks after the US and Iran signed the MOU, which gave them 60 days to negotiate a final deal covering Iran’s nuclear program. But talks on that final deal haven’t really begun yet, largely due to disputes over the Strait of Hormuz and Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... The indirect talks, mediated by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Pakistain, began on Tuesday night and continued Wednesday, an Iranian official said.
"They’ve had very good meetings, and we’ll see," Trump told news hounds before boarding the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One. "The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well."
While Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were in Doha, they did not attend the technical meetings, according to a source with direct knowledge of the talks, who added that the meetings were structured as sessions between chief negotiators and specialists. The two top US envoys instead met with the Qatari prime minister to lay the groundwork for the meetings, the source added.
US negotiators were reportedly seeking to convince their Iranian counterparts at the ongoing indirect technical talks in Doha to forgo plans to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that Tehran would be able to make more money by following through with nuclear concessions than it would be able to generate from such fees.
Qatar foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said late Wednesday that "positive progress [was] made on issues related to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, building on the outcomes of the Lake Lucerne Summit," referring to a summit held by negotiators in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "The parties agreed to continue discussions over the coming period, with the next meeting to be scheduled at the earliest possible time, following the funeral processions of the former Iranian supreme leader," the Qatari spokesperson added.
Funeral ceremonies for Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , who was killed in an Israeli strike on the opening day of the recent Iran war, are set to begin on Saturday and last for several days, concluding with an official burial at his hometown of Mashhad on July 9.
According to two senior Iranian sources, Iran is determined to win international recognition of its control over the waterway and ability to levy fees on ships entering or leaving the Gulf, even if it has to do so by force.
Under this month’s interim deal with the US to end their three-month conflict, Iran agreed to let ships pass through the Strait for 60 days without charge. But it believes the wording of the agreement allows it to keep control of which ships may pass and which route they take through the narrow waterway. Iran is ready to impose its demands on the Strait through force if there is no agreement by other countries to accept its terms, the officials added, saying Tehran would not back down even if it led to renewed — and intensified — confrontation with the US.
In response to Iran’s efforts to charge tolls in Hormuz after the 60-day period expires, "the US message to Iran was ’Think bigger,'" a US official told the Axios news site, claiming the sums Iran could generate from developing and selling oil after the US lifts sanctions under the deal "would be 100 times more valuable to them than using a gangster tactic to try and charge a toll."
"We are pushing them to think bigger about their potential in the context of a broader nuclear and regional non-intervention deal," the US official said.
"We have reached an understanding that we will keep things quiet for the coming week, so progress on all aspects of the MOU can be worked on in a productive environment, without missiles flying," the official said. "The President has been clear that every time they shoot, we will shoot more — and at targets that further degrade their position in the Strait."
After the talks ended Wednesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi also said that "a communication channel would be established by tomorrow" to report and record violations of the memorandum, according to quotes published by the IRNA state news agency.
Gharibabadi also said that the sides agreed that part of the $6 billion in frozen funds would be released to allow Tehran to purchase goods based on its needs.
The Saudi Al Arabiya news site reported that during Wednesday’s technical talks in Doha, the sides reached an understanding regarding the release of the first batch, $3 billion of frozen Iranian funds held by Qatar, at least some of which will come from the US market. US officials had previously claimed that all of the money would go toward buying American products.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... US officials speaking to the outlet denied that such an agreement had been reached on the release of the Iranian funds.
VANCE: US WON’T ATTACK ’JUST FOR THE SAKE OF DROPPING BOMBS’
Touting Washington’s position in the talks, US Vice President JD Vance told troops while visiting a naval air base in Virginia on Wednesday that Trump is now "negotiating from a position of strength because of you."
"If the Iranians try to rebuild the nuclear program, the President’s got options. If the Iranians try to threaten their neighbors or fund terrorism, we’ve got options," he said.
"But what we must never do is drop bombs just for the sake of dropping bombs. And that is what the president will never ask you to do," Vance continued.
"He’ll ask you to go to war, yes. But when he asks you to go to war, he’ll tell you exactly what you’re going for. And I think that is what you should expect out of your politicianship," the vice president said.
"What I noticed about the people who are attacking the administration for negotiating is that they are the very same people who, for example, encouraged us to just go a little bit further and just drop a few more bombs in places like Afghanistan. If you go back to the mistakes that were made, those very same people refused to say what we were dropping bombs for," he continued.
Despite Vance’s assertions, the Trump administration has come under fire for what critics say have been unclear goals in the Iran war. The administration has asserted that it launched the war primarily to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, even though the president has also claimed to have completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear program in strikes a year ago.
Israel had no part in negotiating the memorandum of understanding, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has distanced himself from it. Still, the terms of the opening clause, permanently ending the war and ruling out any resumption, assert that it is binding on the US, Iran "and their allies."
Israeli officials are bitterly opposed to the deal’s terms, which resolve none of the war’s key goals — notably, eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and creating the conditions for the collapse of the regime.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM.RU] Those responsible for the assassination of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be punished. Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohammad Bagher Zulqadr announced this on July 1.
Inshallah, buddy. A bit more piety might be wise, under the circumstances.
"The case of revenge for the innocent blood of the great Khamenei and the innocent martyrs of Iran has been opened, and the perpetrators of these crimes will be punished by righteous people in due time," Zulqadr wrote on social media.
On the morning of February 28, Israel and the United States launched large-scale military operations against Iran, striking Tehran, Bushehr, and several other cities. The attacks killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other high-ranking officials. That same day, Iran announced the launch of a large-scale retaliatory operation using missiles and drones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the people of Iran and its president following the death of Khamenei. The Russian leader called the incident a cynical murder and a violation of all norms of human morality and international law.
The funeral and burial of Ali Khamenei will take place in Iran from July 4 to 9. The funeral ceremony will take place at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, where his coffin will be on display. The burial will take place on July 9 in Mashhad, the Supreme Leader's hometown.
Posted by: badanov ||
07/02/2026 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1895 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[NewsMax] Iranian clerics have called for the assassinations of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement signed by dozens of members of the country's Assembly of Experts, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
The British newspaper reported that a 10-point statement signed by about 63 members of the 88-member clerical body declared Trump and Netanyahu "mahdour al-dam," an Islamic legal term generally referring to someone whose blood is considered forfeit or who deserves to die.
According to The Telegraph, the statement said killing "the criminal American president" and "the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime" was a religious duty and that anyone who had the opportunity to do so "must not" neglect it. The report said the statement described avenging the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February as "paramount."
The Telegraph reported the statement stopped short of a formal fatwa because, under Shiite Islamic tradition, such religious rulings are issued by individual clerics rather than groups. The newspaper also reported that the Assembly of Experts' secretariat later distanced itself from the statement, although it said about 63 members had signed it.
The report came as the state-run Iranian newspaper Hamshahri featured Trump on its front page Tuesday beneath the headline "Revenge Is Certain," alongside an article highlighting calls by senior clerics and lawmakers for retaliation over Khamenei's death.
The article included a quotation attributed to Grand Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi Amoli urging the shedding of Trump's blood and another section describing parliamentary proposals to offer a 50 million euro reward for killing Trump.
The Assembly of Experts is an 88-member body of Islamic jurists responsible under Iran's Constitution for appointing and supervising the country's supreme leader. According to previous reports in the wake of Khamenei's killing in the opening U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, the body selected his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as his successor.
The reported statement comes despite a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month by the United States and Iran establishing a 60-day framework for negotiations aimed at reaching a broader agreement following the conflict.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 ||
07/02/2026 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1827 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
#1
Maybe some "clerics" should be eliminated also.
Posted by: Chris ||
07/02/2026 16:09 Comments ||
Top||
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
