Abdolmajid Kharaqani, a cleric supporting Iran’s regime and a religious media activist, announced in an interview with an Instagram-based outlet called “OnNews” that a campaign has been launched on the regime’s domestic social media networks to raise money for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the same interview, he also directly threatened both leaders.
He stated, “Netanyahu and Trump must be killed as leaders of the front of infidelity,” and added, “In European countries, this is done for 20 million dollars.”
These remarks by the regime-affiliated cleric come days after senior Shiite religious authorities issued religious rulings labeling Trump and Netanyahu as mohareb (waging war against God).
On June 29, 2025, Naser Makarem Shirazi and Hossein Noori Hamedani, two regime-aligned Shiite clerics based in Qom, declared individuals who threaten Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran’s regime, as “mohareb,” without directly naming Trump and Netanyahu.
Yesterday, Najmuddin Tabasi, a member of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association, also threatened Trump with death, saying, “Trump’s hands are stained with blood and he must be punished and receive retribution for his actions.”
Referring to the fatwas by Makarem Shirazi and Noori Hamedani declaring Trump a mohareb, he added, “I am confident that brave youth will deprive Trump of security.”
