'Send them to hell'
Key Points:
- Iran’s Assembly of Experts, comprising 88 senior clerics, declared US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "deserving of death," calling for their assassinations as a religious duty.
- The clerics emphasized that killing these leaders is paramount to avenging the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and urged any capable person to carry out the act.
- Iranian media amplified the threat, with the newspaper Hamshahri featuring Trump’s image in rifle crosshairs alongside the headline “Revenge is certain.”
- The clerics criticized ongoing cease-fire negotiations as a US tactic to buy time for further attacks and stressed the importance of meeting deadlines outlined in a US-Iran memorandum of understanding.
- They called on supporters of the Iranian regime to mobilize publicly in support of the supreme leader, describing mass participation as necessary and decisive.