Iran held one of its largest funeral processions yet for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday. Crowds called for revenge against Donald Trump. Tens of thousands lined a 10-kilometre route through Tehran as the procession crawled forward, frequently halting under the weight of the crowd.
Iran mourners demand vengeance against Donald Trump for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death
State television aired drone shots of a Tehran boulevard so dense with people that organisers struggled to keep the funeral truck moving. That truck carried Khamenei’s casket alongside those of four relatives, while attendants sprayed mist over the crowd to fight the heat.
Anger surfaced visibly along the route. At one point, mourners reportedly threw stones at a suspended billboard showing Donald Trump with a bullet trained on his head, captioned “The U.S. killed our father. We won’t let you go!”
Elsewhere, women dressed in black chadors raised red signs bearing the words “KILL TRUMP.” Protesters also burned American and British flags and strung up an effigy of the president (via Reuters).
Similar messaging had surfaced a day earlier at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, where poet Mohammad Rasouli told a packed prayer hall, “From now on the shroud is our garment. I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility” (via The Guardian).
He went further, asking the crowd, “Why is the most bastard man in the world still alive? The world is no longer a good place for Trump. Why should we not kill the man who killed our imam? It would be a disgrace if we did not.”
Officials framed the mood in similar terms. National Security Council Secretary Mohammed Bagher Zolghadr said mourners were chanting slogans built around “resistance against enemies and revenge for the blood of the martyred leader of Iran.”
Washington has reportedly monitored threats against Donald Trump from Iranian sources for years, a pattern that is linked to his 2020 order to kill Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Iran has consistently denied any active plot against the president (via Associated Press).
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
