The emcee of the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei threatened to murder US President Donald Trump, according to a report. The speaker stated, 'We will murder Trump,' and 'His elimination is ours,' in a new escalation of rhetoric at the funeral.
The emcee of the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei explicitly threatened to murder US President Donald Trump on Sunday, according to a single report. The speaker was recorded saying, 'We will murder Trump' and 'His elimination is ours,' marking the latest escalation in hardline rhetoric at the funeral, which has drawn hundreds of thousands of mourners.
This threat follows a series of earlier calls for assassination reported throughout the morning. At 06:54 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported a cleric swearing to kill Trump, calling it a religious duty. At 07:04, a speaker declared that 'shrouds will be our clothing' if Trump is not killed, and at 08:07, another speaker swore by Khamenei's blood that murdering Trump is a duty. By 09:06, crowds at the funeral were reported chanting for vengeance against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The evolution of the rhetoric escalated from individual calls to a coordinated theme from the funeral's master of ceremonies.
As The Zioneer reported on Wed Jul 1, the funeral saw hardline rhetoric from its earliest stages, with speakers declaring the killing of the US president a 'duty.' Background context includes a confidant of Khamenei threatening the destruction of the US, and Houthi delegates chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans at the funeral. The Iran Intelligence Ministry has also vowed revenge, as The Zioneer reported on Sat Jul 4.
The report of the emcee's threat originates from a single source and has not been independently corroborated. The Zioneer assesses the event as developing, given the single source, and it remains unclear whether the Iranian authorities will distance themselves from or endorse the rhetoric.
5 developments
- StrongAt Khamenei funeral, speaker says 'shrouds will be our clothing' if Trump not killed
- DevelopingIranian poet at Khamenei funeral calls for Trump's assassination in protest poem
- StrongAt Khamenei funeral, mourners chant Shia battle cry 'Ya latharāt al-Hussein'
- DevelopingKhamenei funeral reportedly set for July 4, US Independence Day
Source and signal
- Internal intake