Two US mosques accused of shut ties to Iran ‘honor’ Khamenei after weekend strike

Two United States-based mosques which have confronted scrutiny for his or her ties to Iran held formal occasions to “honor” Ayatollah Khamenei after U.S. army forces took out the Islamic chief of Iran this weekend, together with one mosque in Northern Virginia that referred to Khamenei as “our chief.” 

Situated in Manassas, Virginia, and Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the mosques each publicly marketed occasions eulogizing the slain chief. In a flyer for the “Potluck Iftar” honoring Khamenei, which is a ceremony the place Muslims break their Ramadan quick, the Manassass Mosque, which has confronted questions over alleged ties to Iran, referred to Khamenei as “our chief.” In the meantime, on the Islamic Home of Knowledge (IHW) in Dearborn Heights, which has additionally confronted scrutiny over its ties to Iran, the middle’s Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi known as the U.S. army offensive “evil” and argued that it was based mostly on false-pretenses. 

“You promised that America First, and now we ended as much as have Netanyahu first,” the Michigan-based Imam advised his congregants after the assaults this weekend. “Now we understand that each one their speak about nuclear [unintelligible] was a joke, it did not even exist. From the start speaking about regime change, we need to change, as a result of we do not prefer it. So, beginning an unlawful – unlawful struggle – after which go and bomb the home of the chief of the nation. The place is justification for this? The place is their motive for this, in any respect?”

The Michigan-based Islamic worship middle and its Imam additionally touted speaking factors from Iranian state media and officers that haven’t but been confirmed, claiming tons of of younger ladies have been killed by a missile strike on a faculty in Iran. Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for Iran’s well being ministry, stated Saturday that 60 younger kids have been killed and 80 injured, however by Sunday Iranian officers have been saying the dying toll had risen to about 150, in accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal. The Islamic Republic Information Company (IRNA) posted on X on Monday that the alleged dying toll was now as excessive as 168. 

In response to The Guardian, Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, indicated they have been “conscious of experiences regarding civilian hurt ensuing from ongoing army operations,” including that, “We take these experiences critically and are wanting into them.”

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“Why a faculty? Why not a army base or a missile base? They assault kids first. It is a type of their – once more, name me loopy – however youngster sacrifice,” stated a speaker on the IHW’s Ramadan program, who gave a speech alongside Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi. “It is a struggle towards justice, towards morality, towards legality, towards reality,” Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi added as he was talking to his followers.  

“Now we understand that each one their speak about nuclear [unintelligible] was a joke, it did not even exist. From the start speaking about regime change, we need to change, as a result of we do not prefer it,” the Imam continued.

On March 1, 2026, in Sana’a, Yemen, pro-Iran protesters brandish billboards depicting the Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Hosseini Khamenei, flags of Yemen and Iran, weapons, and chant slogans at a rally held to sentence the U.S.-Israel aerial assaults on Iran and the killing of Khamenei and several other army officers. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Photographs)

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Each the Manassas Mosque and the IWH have been listed in a July 2023 letter that Congressional Republicans despatched to former Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland and former Director of Nationwide Intelligence in the course of the Biden administration, Avril Haines.  The letter known as out a community of U.S.-based mosques all through the nation which have obtained monetary funding from the Alavi Basis, which lawmakers stated “is a big basis that has been in litigation for years due to allegations it operates on behalf of the Iranian regime, a state sponsor of terrorism,” or produce other shut ties to the Iranian regime.    

“The Imam of IHW, Mohammad Ali Elahi, served as the pinnacle of ‘political ideology’ for the Iranian Navy within the Nineteen Eighties, in accordance with a publicly accessible Central Intelligence Company report.” the letter asserts. “He personally claims to be ‘buddies’ with three former Iranian Presidents, and since transferring to the US, he has had seemingly continuous contact with senior regime officers.”

Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi leads a prayer on the Islamic Home of Knowledge in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, on October 18, 2024. Lebanese-Individuals within the Detroit suburbs, watching with horror the unfolding devastation of the struggle within the Center East, are considering denying Kamala Harris their votes to punish her administration for its help for Israel. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP through Getty Photographs)

The letter, which included issues additionally specified by a report drafted by the George Washington College Program on Extremism, provides that IHW has been “a big purveyor of extremist propaganda, according to the Iranian regime’s views.”

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The Manassas Mosque was among the many teams that obtained monetary funding from the Alavi Basis, reportedly totaling round $200,000. The mosque has additionally reportedly been gifted costly relics from the Iranian regime, and alleged video of the within reportedly exhibits the worship middle stuffed with photos of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “martyrs” killed in Syria, a life-size cut-out of Khamenei and Iranian flags or different symbols.

Fox Information Digital reached out to each mosques, however neither returned requests for remark in time for publication.  

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