New Delhi, April 6 -- n a chilling escalation of rhetoric, Kayhan, a hardline Iranian newspaper widely seen as the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, published a column on Saturday that openly advocated for the assassination of US President Donald Trump.

""He's way out of line! Any day now, in revenge for the blood of Martyr Soleimani, a few bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull of his and he'll be drinking from the chalice of a cursed death," the column read in Persian, according to a report in Fox News.

The Kayhan article also launched a broader attack on Trump's legacy and US domestic stability: "He makes threats and then backs down! The result? The situation in America gets worse by the day. Just yest...