Mourners at the funeral procession of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei carried banners and offensive placards calling for the death of US President Donald Trump, with inflammatory slogans of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” echoing through the streets of Tehran.A large poster was displayed among the crowd depicting Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as wanted men. It contained English-language threats such as “There will be blood” and “Kill Trump”, along with photographs of both leaders holding crosshairs and coffins below their faces. The poster promised a gift of land to anyone who killed both of them, reading: “Kill them both like dogs and receive as a reward 100 plots of land, each measuring 20 square metres.“
Many displays of anti-American and anti-Trump sentiment could be seen at the funeral procession. Participants were also seen carrying a hanging effigy of Trump with a pro-Iran flag attached to it. Other mourners carried signs featuring US Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Netanyahu that read, “There will be blood.”A video circulating online showed Iranians gathered for the funeral throwing objects at a Trump poster. The accompanying Arabic slogan, “O Avengers of Hussein”, invokes Shia ideas of martyrdom and divinely sanctioned retribution that may be delayed but is ultimately inevitable.The funeral ceremony also included inflammatory comments from eulogist Mohammad Rasouli, who called for Trump’s death when addressing mourners before prayers over Khamenei’s body on Sunday. “Why should we not kill the one who killed my Imam and my leader?” Rasouli said. “It will be a disgrace for us if we do not kill your murderer.”Rasouli urged attendees to chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, declaring that “killing Trump is our duty.” When he asked the crowd, “Why is the most hated man in the world still alive?” So he was welcomed with thunderous applause.The development comes as Trump claimed that Washington could eliminate the surviving Iranian leadership “in one fell swoop” if it wanted, pointing to the circle of top Iranian officials attending the funeral. “They’re all in there. All at once (and we could take them all out), but we’re not going to do that because then we wouldn’t have anyone to negotiate with,” Trump said in an interview with Axios.The funeral procession, which began Monday morning in Tehran, is expected to be “the largest public gathering in the country’s modern history,” and will last for 10 to 12 hours along a 10-kilometer route, Iran’s state broadcaster Press TV reported. Celebrations will continue in Qom on Tuesday, followed by processions in Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday, and a burial at the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad on Thursday.Delegations from many countries, including heads of state and senior officials from Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Türkiye and many other countries, arrived in Tehran to pay their respects.