Incendiary chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” echoed through the streets of Tehran as mourners attending the funeral procession of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei carried banners and aggressive placards calling for the death of US President Donald Trump.A large poster depicting Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as wanted fugitives was displayed in the crowd. It featured English-language threats, including “There will be blood” and “Kill Trump,” as well as images of the two leaders marked with crosshairs and coffins placed beneath their faces. The poster promised that whoever killed them both would get a piece of land as a gift, reading: “Kill them like dogs and get 100 pieces of land, each with an area of 20 square meters, as a reward.”“
The funeral procession is likely to feature multiple displays of anti-American and anti-Trump sentiment. Participants were also seen holding effigy of Trump hanging from a noose and supported by pro-Iran flags. Other mourners held placards reading “There will be blood” alongside US Vice President Vance, War Secretary Pete Hegers and Netanyahu.A video circulated online showed Iranians attending a funeral throwing objects at a poster of Trump. The accompanying Arab slogan, “Oh, avenger of Hussein,” invokes Shiite ideas of martyrdom and divine retribution that may be delayed but is ultimately inevitable.The funeral also featured inflammatory remarks from mourner Mohammad Rasouli, who addressed mourners before prayers for Khamenei’s body on Sunday and called for Trump’s death. “Why should we not kill the man who killed my imam and my leader?” Rasouli said. “It would be a shame on us if we didn’t kill your murderer.”Rasouli urged attendees to chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” and declared that “it is our duty to kill Trump.” He asked the audience, “Why is the meanest man in the world still alive?” and received applause.The developments came as Trump claimed that Washington could “eliminate” the surviving Iranian leadership “with one shot” if it wanted to, pointing to senior Iranian officials who attended the funeral. “They’re all there. One shot [and we can take them all out]but we’re not going to do that because then we have no one to negotiate with,” Trump said in an interview with Axios.Iran’s national broadcaster Press TV reported that the funeral procession started in Tehran on Monday morning and was expected to be “the largest public gathering in the country’s modern history.” The procession route will be 10 kilometers long and last 10 to 12 hours. Ceremonies will continue in Qom on Tuesday, processions will be held in Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday, and a funeral is scheduled for Thursday at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad.Heads of state and senior officials from dozens of countries including Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iraq, and Türkiye arrived in Tehran to express their condolences.
