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.

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    Hey. If it happens you won’t hear me complain.

    He needs to go. The who how and why doesn’t matter so long as he’s gone. That’s a win for the entire human race.

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      I was gonna say that it would only be unfortunate due to giving them a reason to attack Iran, but history has shown us that doesn’t matter. We’ll do that regardless. If we dont have a reason we’ve been happy to just make one up.

      At this point its really just a matter of not wanting to actually fight America on the battlefield.

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      Has he created a movement, or has there been a movement that has attracted him? As I see it, it’s not just him it’s most of the current GOP leadership, Thiel and the Heritage foundation, Citizens United and a few adjacent organizations that need to go before you can go to a somewhat reasonable functioning society in the US. And frankly the way some Democrats react to the New York primary, they also seriously need to clean house.

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        Happiness is small moments. Little dots of hope in a sea of despair and misery.

        You go to work. Autopilot through the day. Then at lunch or on break you get that sandwich you really love from a nearby shop or your favorite spot. You have that momentary respite before returning to whatever drudgery you’re forced to endure to live in this hole. Now expand that to cover everything all the time. Might be a sandwich. Might be a new episode of your favorite show. A hug from your partner or child.

        Tiny moments of joy.

        Doe 174 dying is a tiny moment of joy that a whole lot of people will get a whole lot of joy from. So yeah. It’ll be worth it. And I’ll applaud it no matter how it happens.

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      The problem is the movement he has created. The same is true of many other politicians in other countries.

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      It matters. He must not be allowed to go quickly or peacefully. He must be tortured live on the internet until it takes him. I won’t be happy with anything less. After all, it’s the cruelty that matters.

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    Here’s a comprehensive list why killing the orange Shitgibbon is a bad idea:
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      Let’s just hope that if anything ever happens, the event takes large parts of the succession line with it.

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      Making him a martyr would be a bad consequence.

      Once again failing to hold a president accountable for crimes against the country only keeps that avenue wide open for the future.

      There’s two

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    Well, Trump is an insult to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell

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    As much as I’d like to see this sadistic shitbag removed from society anyway possible, it would be preferable to see him in jail or let the Big Macs take care of him. If an assassination is tied to Iran, that can’t be good for anyone.

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      They should just have Trump’s dumbass UCW event end with a fight between Trump and the Ali Khamenei. Both are demented authoritarian old fools, and it would be funny to have these “tough guys” in a ring barely able to stand up before a punch is even thrown.

      But they’re both cowards that make others do violence for them so that’ll never happen.

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          He stayed quiet and went in hiding, Trump can’t for the life of him, do that.

          Even if the US government went though a lot of trouble faking his death and relocating him he’d be bragging about it on twitter before the end of the week.

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        not that I wouldn’t love this win for religious fundamentalist posturing, it’s not going to play out like that for Fruity Tootsie the Orange Teletubby. he’s not the same.

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          Well, now we have a couple million Shi’ite Muslims—some, but not all of which are extremists—believing that they’ll instantly go to heaven if they off him on the planet… which skews the odds a little.

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            certainly numbers are in favor of it. I just think there’s a little more to it than that. Osama B’ for instance wasn’t born, he was made with American funding to fight communists for decades. and he existed in a time before the current zeitgeist of manufactured consent.

            just sayin, I think it’s highly likely the Islam religion will embrace jihad as a more abstract spiritual vibe before they actually follow through on something like that again. like how leftists now do revolution as more of an affectation or how christians do thoughts and prayers to fix injustices in the world. as it was written in the ancient texts “do it or ‘no balls’”

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          I know. But it’s a religious thing, so any random dude with a mental illness, other than religion itself, can take Holy Action ™.

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            perhaps you’re right. I’m struggling with the mental justification of allowing myself to think that anyone but Americans can rid ourselves of him. but who knows. maybe it’s okay to think that someone else will do it. here’s hoping allah’s greatest defender is out there somewhere, may he have the most violent brainworms that he needs for the Holy Justice 🙏 or whatever

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    He is the enemy of literally everyone, so, I guess God is also on that list 😂

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    During the WW II the Allies did not consider assassinating Hitler, because they knew who was fucking everything up. The lunatic cleric should realize Mango Mussolini is weakening the USA.

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      Given the backdoors in modern CPUs and routers, that’s not something you want in writing on the interweebs. Say, do you know what approaching re-education drones sound like?

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      pfffffff ha ha ha and he deletes his post! Guess he heard an airplane and thought it was the Raytheon GBU-12 Camp Camp refugee tent buster bomb being sent his way!

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          That’s what geocached samizdat is for, silly boy! Or pirate radio, or pirate OTA TV (HD or NTSC for extra cred).

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    Feels like deja vu to when Bin Laden issues a jihad against the US, but this time it is much more personal - Trump got called out.

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    Anyone else planning on dining out in an Iranian restaurant tonight?