Former Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Larijani: Our Islamic Scholars Have Issued a Fatwa Designating Trump as Someone Who Wages War against God - Any Muslim Might 'Do the Job'
He said, 'The idiot running some government has used really vulgar language' against the Supreme Leader and even threatened him. Larijani emphasized that Americans understand the significance of being labeled a muhareb. He added that millions of Muslims support the fatwa, and the Iranian government does not need to act - 'the Americans should know that it is possible that some Muslim will do the job.'
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