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<\/picture><\/div>\n\na portrait of Ali Khamenei in Tehran on July 4, 2026.
\n<\/span>\u00a9\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Morteza Nikoubazl \/ NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has vowed to avenge his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes on his compound in Tehran on February 28.<\/p>\n
Khamenei made the statement after his father was laid to rest at the Imam Reza Shrine in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday. More than 43 million people attended weeklong funeral ceremonies across Iran and Iraq, according to Iranian state media. Some mourners carried placards calling for the killing of US President Donald Trump, chanted\u00a0\u201cDeath to America,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and threw stones at a billboard depicting Trump with a bullet aimed at his head.<\/p>\n \u201cWe pledge that we will take revenge for the pure blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Khamenei said in a statement read on state television on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cRevenge is the demand of our nation and must certainly be carried out. Soon, the free people of the world will carry out a part of this divine mission,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement added.<\/p>\n Khamenei has not appeared in public since the Assembly of Experts chose him to succeed his father in early March.<\/p>\n Trump threatened on Friday to\u00a0\u201ccompletely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran\u201d<\/em>\u00a0if Tehran attempted to assassinate him. Several US media outlets reported this week that Israel had warned Washington of what it described as a new Iranian plot against Trump.<\/p>\n The US and Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian officials and military commanders during the first weeks of their bombing campaign. Trump recently argued that the ceasefire, first reached in April, was effectively\u00a0\u201cover\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as the two sides clashed over the interpretation of the memorandum of understanding signed on June 17.<\/p>\n The US carried out a third round of strikes against Iran this week in response to continued attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran blamed the US for the\u00a0\u201cincidents,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0accusing Washington of\u00a0\u201cillegally designating\u201d<\/em>\u00a0a shipping route near the Omani coast. Tehran has insisted that all ships use the route designated by Iran.<\/p>\n