Ali Khamenei's fatwa against insulting revered Sunni figures

[9] Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat, Ali al-Sistani[citation needed], Naser Makarem Shirazi, Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Mousa Shubairi Zanjani have similar opinion to Khamenei in this issue.

[12][14] On 20 September 2010, the Kuwaiti government held a meeting and accused Al-Habib of insulting religious symbols and attempting to excite sedition in Kuwait, and cancelled his citizenship.

[16] Several Saudi Arabian Shia clerics asked Khamenei to express his view on the incident[1][17][14] to stem sectarian tensions in the Persian Gulf region.

[24][25] Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hezbollah of Lebanon, said during a meeting with the leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama in Indonesia Said Aqil Siradj, said the fatwa disappointed those who tried to harm Islamic unity.

[26] Many authorities supported the fatwa, including the secretary general of the Lebanese Ummah Movement, Abdul Nasser Al-Jabri; the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Hammam Saeed;[27][28] Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri;[29] Sheikh Maher Mezher, the head of the Sunni society to support the resistance in Lebanon;[30] secretary general of the Jordanian Islamic Action Front (IAF), Hamza Mansour;[31] and the Lebanese Islamic Action Front.

[34] Mohamed Megahed al-Zayat, vice-director of the National Center for Middle East Studies, criticized the Iranian media for not paying much attention to the fatwa.