Talking to the head of the Berlin-based Governance Center Middle East/North Africa at the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance, Udo Steinbach stressed the fatwa was important and had to be taken seriously by the West.
He welcomed Iranian calls to register Ayatollah Khameneis fatwa as an official UN document, saying it would provide added credibility to Tehrans anti-nuclear weapon pledge and give it a binding character in terms of international law
