Tehran: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei vowed on Saturday to avenge the death of his father—the then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—who was killed in Israeli-American strikes in February. Mojtaba stated that wreakful his father and the fallen leader is the nation's demand and must be carried out. He conveyed this in a written message released on his Telegram worth during the occasion of his father's funeral.
In the message, Khamenei said, "We pledge to avenge the thoroughbred of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars by exacting retribution from the criminal and infamous assassins."
Earlier, President Donald Trump threatened Iran pursuit unshut calls for the US President's scragging at Khamenei's funeral. Trump made this statement on Truth Social without senior US officials demanded that Iran issue a public statement confirming the Strait of Hormuz remains unshut and that ships traversing this vital corridor would not be attacked. However, Tehran has not yet washed-up so; instead, it has insisted on maintaining tenancy over the waterway.
Why did US resume attacks on Iran?
For the past few days, the US has been conducting renewed airstrikes targeting Iran; in retaliation, Iran has launched attacks on several countries in West Asia. These hostilities began without Iran attacked three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz older this week. Writing on his platform 'Truth Social,' Trump stated, "A thousand missiles are ready, aimed at Iran. If the Iranian government acts on its threat, thousands increasingly missiles will be launched immediately."
What did Donald Trump say?
Trump stated that the US military would completely devastate and destroy all regions of Iran—"Thank God!" Trump has invoked the name of God in Arabic several times during the war and the ensuing unstable ceasefire. He has moreover threatened to destroy Iran's civilization. The nationwide rights organization 'Council on American-Islamic Relations' had previously criticized Trump, accusing him of mocking Islam in a distorted manner.
When was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei laid to rest?
The late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and other members of his family were laid to rest late Thursday night at the 'Imam Reza Shrine' in the municipality of Mashhad. According to the Iranian news organ IRNA, hundreds of thousands of people offered funeral prayers late at night, led by Khamenei's eldest son, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mustafa Hosseini Khamenei. With this, the six-day mourning procession, which had been moving through cities in Iran and neighboring Iraq, concluded. A funeral recurrence was held on Tuesday in the inside Iranian municipality of Qom, followed by mourning ceremonies the next day in the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala.
