{"id":2624491,"date":"2026-07-05T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranians-call-for-trumps-death-at-funeral-for-assassinated-ayatollah\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:40:22","slug":"iranians-call-for-trumps-death-at-funeral-for-assassinated-ayatollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranians-call-for-trumps-death-at-funeral-for-assassinated-ayatollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians call for Trump&#8217;s death at funeral for assassinated ayatollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanians-call-for-trumps-death-at-funeral-for-assassinated-ayatollah%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2624491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The funeral of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in U.S.-Israel strikes, drew hundreds of thousands of mourners, including many high-ranking Iranian officials. Prominent figures, such as president Masoud Pezeshkian and military leaders like Esmail Qaani and Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, attended the event. Vahidi, viewed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-saudi-announcement-to-come-monday-official-says-no-new-steps-expected\/\" title=\"Biden Says Saudi Announcement to Come Monday; Official Says No New Steps Expected\">de facto ruler<\/a>, appeared publicly for the first time since the war began. Notably absent was Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has remained unseen since the recent airstrike that wounded his father. <\/p>\n<p>Mourners expressed intense anti-U.S. sentiments, with some openly calling for revenge against President Donald Trump, whom they referred to with insults. One speaker explicitly called for Trump\u2019s assassination, and others voiced desires for retribution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christian-almost-murdered-twice-by-islamists-finds-home-in-canada-for-christmas\/\" title=\"Christian Almost Murdered Twice By Islamists Finds Home In Canada For Christmas\">citing recent killings<\/a> of Iranian leaders. U.S. intelligence has previously warned of Iranian attempts to target Trump, especially following the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Trump responded to the funeral turnout by boasting about the U.S. military&#8217;s success in Iran and suggested that anti-American protests might be fakery,though he acknowledged being surprised by the emotional display at the event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prominent mourners at the funeral of former <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iranian<\/a> Supreme Leader Ayatollah <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ali-khamenei\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2865\">Ali Khamenei<\/a> vowed revenge against President Donald Trump, including calls for his assassination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revenge was a major theme of the massive funeral \u2014 the ayatollah was himself assassinated in U.S.-Israel strikes \u2014 which was attended by hundreds of thousands, including nearly every senior Iranian official. At one point, Mohammad Rasouli, a poet who served as the master of ceremonies before the prayers, openly called for Trump\u2019s assassination over the loudspeakers, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/khamenei-funeral-supreme-leader-iran-us-war-july-5-2026-9c2641e5bc540e5943dd39b95d4f02f8\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/khamenei-funeral-supreme-leader-iran-us-war-july-5-2026-9c2641e5bc540e5943dd39b95d4f02f8\">according to<\/a> the <em>Associated Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4636534\/netanyahu-israel-woke-right-vance\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Netanyahu rips anti-Israel \u2018woke Right,\u2019 rebuffs Vance\u2019s \u2018only powerful ally\u2019 remark<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4636524\/netanyahu-government-supreme-court-crisis\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Netanyahu government says it will defy Israel\u2019s Supreme Court, escalating crisis<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4636196\/america-250-around-world\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>America 250 around the world<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">Morners attend a funeral prayer part of the dayslong funeral ceremonies for the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 5, 2026.(Alireza Mohammadi\/ISNA via AP)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2026\/07\/localimages\/AP26186325365848.jpg?w=696&#8243; &#8220;https:><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mourners attend a funeral prayer part of the dayslong funeral ceremonies for the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 5, 2026.(Alireza Mohammadi\/ISNA via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy is the biggest bastard in the world still alive?\u201d he asked, referring to Trump. \u201cThe world is no longer a good place\u201d for Trump, he added to raucous cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He apparently wasn\u2019t stopped by officials. Those in attendance included President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Quds Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">leader<\/a> Esmail Qaani, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, widely believed to be the de facto ruler of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a>. The funeral was the second time Vahidi had been seen publicly since the war began, the other appearance being Thursday, and the first appearance of three of Khamenei\u2019s sons, Masoud, Meysam, and Mostafa, since the war began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was notably absent, as expected. He hasn\u2019t been seen or directly heard from since the Feb. 28 airstrike that killed his father and reportedly wounded him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other mourners who spoke with the <em>Associated Press<\/em> gave more explicit threats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI came here to shout and seek revenge,\u201d Gholamreza Sabooni, a 29-year-old man who works in a grocery store, told the outlet. \u201cThey killed our imam; we should kill their leader, Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. intelligence has warned of Iranian <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-assassination-attempt\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11575\">assassination attempts<\/a> against Trump since 2020, when the first threats came following his assassination of charismatic Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >continued issuing provocative comments<\/a> of his own, touting Iran\u2019s military rout in the war and floating the idea of killing everyone at the funeral.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe knocked the hell out of Iran,\u201d he said in a July 4 speech. \u201cThey\u2019re dying to settle. We gave them a week off for a funeral because we\u2019re nice people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4636524\/netanyahu-government-supreme-court-crisis\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4636524\">NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WILL DEFY ISRAEL\u2019S SUPREME COURT, ESCALATING CRISIS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey are all there. One shot [and we can take them all out], but we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with,\u201d Trump said in another comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Trump ceded to <em>Axios<\/em> that he was \u201cshocked\u201d at the turnout and outpourings of emotions at the funeral, though he suggested they could be \u201cfake tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourners at Khamenei&#8217;s funeral called for Trump&#8217;s assassination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2624492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26186630974353.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6091,50911,3823,4542,3634],"class_list":["post-2624491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ayatollah","tag-funeral-2","tag-iran","tag-protest","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26186630974353.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624495,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624491\/revisions\/2624495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}