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.
Propaganda. How is his credibility collapsing?
Without checking the context, Iran and their proxies got hit a bunch and turned the other cheek, so in the game theoretic sense, yes, none of their threats will be credible now.
The conventional smart move would have been to start gradually blowing Isreali and American stuff up the moment Hazbollah was attacked. It sounds they might actually have some kind of twisted, theocratic idealism that got in the way of that.
Wtf are you talking about? There were USA reporters in bomb shelters and Israelis making “oh, we’re so persecuted because we’re Jewish,” tiktok videos as Iran bombed the shit out of Israel.
They didn’t turn the other cheek. Propaganda has you.
That was only after the eventual direct attack on Iranian soil, and I don’t know if it’s even double digit missiles that have managed to land in return. Some Israelis are still stunned, but only because of how deep in a bubble they are.
Iran also opted not to close the Strait of Hormuz, even now, although apparently they were making preparations.