Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral procession of deceased Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, brandishing posters of Donald Trump and top allies scrawled with threats to kill them.
Video from Tehran shows pro-regime demonstrators with posters featuring red crosshairs over the faces of Trump, Peter Thiel, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, and others, above the seven-word warning: ‘Sooner or later, your heads will roll.’
Other posters showed the faces of JD Vance and Pete Hegseth over a crosshair with the phrase: ‘There will be blood.’
Chants of ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’ rang out across the capital as Khamenei’s coffin was borne through the streets of Tehran.
Iranians were also seen lighting US and British flags on fire while hurling rocks at pictures of Trump. An effigy of Trump being hanged was pictured near the front of the funeral procession.
Khamenei, 86, was killed on Feb. 28 in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran that struck his residence at the opening of the war. His 36-year rule over Iran was marked by brutal oppression of civilians and the funding of anti-American militants in the region.
Alongside Khamenei’s coffin lay those of the family members killed with him: his wife, his daughter-in-law and his infant granddaughter.
Notably absent was Khamenei’s son Mojtaba, who succeeded his father as supreme leader but has not appeared at the funeral, reportedly wounded in the same strike and believed to be in hiding.
Video from Tehran shows pro-regime demonstrators with posters featuring red crosshairs over the faces of Trump
Iranians are also threatening to kill Trump’s vice president JD Vance and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Iranians hurl rocks at pictures of Trump in Tehran on Monday morning
Khamenei, 86, was killed on Feb. 28 in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran that struck his residence at the opening of the war
Posters threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were also seen at the funeral in Tehran
Trump reacted to the funeral services by claiming that with Iran’s entire leadership gathered in one place it would take only ‘one shot’ to wipe them all out, according to Axios.
The President noted that the US wouldn’t actually do it because it wants someone left at the table to negotiate with.
A few weeks ago, the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), brokered by Pakistan, that halted the fighting on all fronts and set up a 60-day extension of the ceasefire.
The two sides are scheduled in the comings months to negotiate a final peace deal covering Iran’s nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Leaders and representatives from Russia, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other nations have paid their respects at Khamenei’s funeral in recent days.
Over the weekend, the city square was filled with tens of thousands of men and women to mourn the fallen leader. Three of Khamenei’s four sons were filmed weeping in front of his coffin.
Iran’s government are using the funeral’s large turnout to project strength and prove their regime still holds firm after months of US and Israeli strikes.
Earlier this year, under Khamenei’s leadership, thousands of anti-regime protesters were gunned down after taking to the streets in cities across Iran.
