Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared on Saturday that avenging the death of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, is a national imperative that will undoubtedly be pursued, according to Anadolu.
The statement was delivered in a message during the funeral ceremonies for the late leader, as reported by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB.
“We vow to avenge your innocent blood and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and dishonorable perpetrators,” Mojtaba Khamenei said in the message.
Ali Khamenei was laid to rest on Thursday at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, concluding a week of funeral observances.
He was killed in US‑Israeli strikes on Iran that began on February 28, prompting Iranian retaliatory attacks.
According to a Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal, Israel recently shared intelligence with the US alleging that Iran had developed a new plan to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
In a Friday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump threatened to launch “thousands of missiles” at Iran if it attempted to assassinate him.
In June, Tehran and Washington signed a Pakistan-brokered memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war that began in late February and paving the way for a lasting peace agreement.
The memorandum called for an immediate end to fighting on all fronts, the lifting of the US naval blockade on Iran, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite the agreement, the two sides exchanged attacks this week over the passage of commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The US struck targets in Iran, which responded by targeting US assets across the region.
