The massive funeral event in Iran over the weekend for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei included calls for murdering President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from both members of the crowd and official speakers at the events.
The UK Guardian noted that the first official day of the elaborately staged funeral on Saturday was a bit smaller, more subdued, and less “militant” than the angry crowds swarming the street on Sunday.
“From now on the shroud is our garment. I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility,” Rasouli declared to 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,” he said, receiving bloodthirsty applause both in person and online.
“People are shouting two slogans in farewell to their leader: resistance against enemies and revenge for the blood of the martyred leader of Iran,” said Mohammed Baher Zolhardr, secretary of Iran’s national security council.
Some of the men in the crowd wore white robes that ostensibly signaled their willingness to die as “martyrs,” while many of the participants waved red flags, which are understood as calls for bloody revenge in Shia Islam.
Mourners march towards Azadi Square in Tehran on July 6, 2026 during a funeral procession for Iran’s slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his family members. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images) /
The Associated Press (AP) observed that many of the mourners “carried placards, signs, and banners calling for Trump’s death.”
“Today that we are here for the funeral for our leader, it’s a very tough day. We are not here to say goodbye to him, we are here for revenge. And we will take revenge,” one of the mourners told the AP.
“We are here to show that his path will continue, and every single one of these people will continue down his path with clenched fists, and soon we will certainly avenge his death against the U.S. and Israel,” said another.
One member of a group of black-robed older women told Al Jazeera News that they were “here to seek blood vengeance for our leader.”
Mourners hold up a large banner urging a reward for revenge against U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a funerary procession for Iran’s slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his family members near Azadi Square in Tehran on July 6, 2026. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images) /
“We will all listen to his son. He will guide the revolution forward,” she said. Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei was installed as the new Supreme Leader by the Iranian military in March, but he has not been seen or heard from since the February 28 attack that killed his father, and he did not appear at the weekend funeral events.
More banners and signs calling for the death of Trump and Netanyahu were seen along the route of Khamenei’s funeral procession on Monday, as Khamenei’s body was taken first to Mehrabad International Airport in Iran, and will ultimately be transported to his hometown of Masshad for his funeral.
President Trump was hanged in effigy during Monday’s procession, as a large red banner was unfurled, declaring a $100 million “Iranian bounty” on Trump’s head:
“We don’t want a deal, we want Trump dead,” people lining the streets of Tehran for the procession on Monday chanted, referring to the ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations.
Some of them also called for “death to the foreign-backed Pahlavi,” a reference to political activist Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah of Iran.