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Iran funeral performer issues Trump threat as crowd chant ‘Death to America’ | US | News

Iran funeral performer issues Trump threat as crowd chant ‘Death to America’ | US | News

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The performer’s outburst represents the first direct call for Mr Trump’s death by a figure at the funeral, which has already seen posters and graffiti demanding the killing of both the US president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. All of this is unfolding even as Tehran continues to negotiate with Washington over a permanent end to the conflict that has severely disrupted global energy supplies. Poet Mohammad Rasouli drew calls of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” from the assembled mourners. Addressing the crowd, he drew loud cheers when, in reference to Mr Trump, he asked: “Why is the most b*stard man in the world still alive?”. Sunday’s ceremony attracted a considerably larger crowd than the previous day’s proceedings. Mourners dressed in black made their way to the site carrying banners and flags honouring Mr Khamenei, while also demanding Mr Trump’s killing as he delivered a speech in Washington marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. “We’ve had tremendous success,” Mr Trump said, speaking of the American military. “You …

Iran promotes message of continuity and revenge at Khamenei commemoration | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps News

Iran promotes message of continuity and revenge at Khamenei commemoration | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps News

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Tehran, Iran – Large-scale public commemorations for former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have commenced in the capital, with authorities promoting a message of continuity for the Islamic Republic and vengeance for his killing. Khamenei, 86, was targeted in an airstrike at the start of the war with the United States and Israel on February 28, after ruling Iran with absolute power for nearly 37 years. Red flags, commonly associated with martyrdom but also viewed as a symbol of revenge in Shia Islam, were seen throughout the Grand Mosalla commemoration site in Tehran and other mass gatherings. “We must rise,” was the official slogan used for the ceremonies, accompanied by an image of Khamenei’s clenched fist on a red and black background. Thousands gathered inside the huge religious complex used for the funeral from the early hours of Saturday morning to pay their respects to the assassinated supreme leader. Khamenei’s coffin, carried to the funeral site by a lorry, was displayed at the centre of the stage and draped in flags. Positioned on an …

UK, France agree with Oman to ensure safety of its territorial waters

UK, France agree with Oman to ensure safety of its territorial waters

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Vessels are pictured off coast of the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on June 28, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / – | Afp | Getty Images Oman has agreed to work with the U.K. and France to ensure the Gulf country’s territorial waters are safe for navigation, the U.K. said on Saturday, as oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz pick up since the U.S. and Iran signed an agreement last month to reopen the crucial sea lane. “The U.K. and France also stand ready to deploy the wider Multinational Military Mission to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron. “The Strait of Hormuz is a vital artery for the global economy. Restoring safe transit for ships of all nations through the Strait is a matter of global concern,” the statement read. France …

15 million people expected to attend former supreme leader’s funeral

15 million people expected to attend former supreme leader’s funeral

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Mourners thronged a vast prayer complex in ​Tehran on Saturday as the week-long funeral ceremonies of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began with the national anthem, religious eulogies and readings from the Koran. 15 million people are expected to attend the former leader’s funeral, according to Iranian authorities, FRANCE 24’s Reza Sayah said, reporting from Tehran, adding that the event would take place also in neighbouring Iraq. Keywords for this article Source link

‘Hijamat’ Director on Karlovy Vary Film, Jafar Panahi, Iran

‘Hijamat’ Director on Karlovy Vary Film, Jafar Panahi, Iran

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The world premiere of family drama Hijamat will be a bittersweet moment for Iranian writer and director Nader Saeivar (The Witness, No End, Namo). After all, the film was produced and edited by his long-time friend and creative collaborator Jafar Panahi. The auteur duo co-wrote Cannes 2025 Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident, but only Saeivar will get to travel to the world premiere of Hijamat in the Crystal Globe main competition at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Wednesday, July 8. Saeivar left Iran for Berlin in the middle of the shoot for Accident, making Hijamat his first feature fully made outside of the country. Karlovy Vary was hoping to welcome Panahi as part of the delegation for the film, but the filmmaker had returned to Iran following the Accident Oscar campaign. Recently, Iranian authorities took his passport, and he faces another prison term in Iran, following a verdict that found him guilty of “propaganda against the regime.” In Hijamat, multihyphenate Kida Khodr Ramadan plays Murad, who struggles to protect his younger brother Kerem (Jael Cem Ilhan) when he finds …

Khamenei funeral procession begins July 4

Khamenei funeral procession begins July 4

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People cross the street past a large billboard showing portraits of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) in central Tehran on June 8, 2026. Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty Images Iran is staging a six-day funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader who led the Islamic Republic for four decades and was killed on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war in February. The ceremony will begin on July 4, nearly four months after Khamenei was killed, and end on July 9. The procession will cover cities across Iran and Iraq before a final burial in Mashhad, Iran’s holiest city. The funeral, which “will be a tightly choreographed display of mourning, continuity and regime control,” Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House, told CNBC, was delayed for several months due to fighting. The event is expected to draw tens of millions of mourners, and “could reveal tensions beneath the surface,” Vakil added. The Islamic Republic is expected …

Iran says millions expected at funeral for former supreme leader

Iran says millions expected at funeral for former supreme leader

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Iran plans dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Khamenei after war death : NPR

Iran plans dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Khamenei after war death : NPR

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The casket of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s granddaughter, Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani, is displayed alongside the caskets of Khamenei and other members of his family during a viewing ceremony ahead of the dayslong funeral ceremonies at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2026. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption toggle caption Vahid Salemi/AP TEHRAN, Iran — Iran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with banners across Tehran urging the public to rise up in support of the Islamic Republic after the devastating war that killed the 86-year-old cleric. The country’s theocracy expects to see millions flood the streets of the capital beginning Saturday in scenes reminiscent of the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. That could provide a boost for Iran’s government, particularly as it tries to leverage its hold on the Strait of Hormuz in negotiations with the United States over a permanent end to the war, and as concern still lingers that Israel could …

Iranian leaders, foreign officials pay respects to Khamenei ahead of grand funeral

Iranian leaders, foreign officials pay respects to Khamenei ahead of grand funeral

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Top Iranian officials on Friday paid their final respects to the country’s slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the start of a week of funeral ceremonies, with allies and mourners converging on Tehran where his body is lying in state. Authorities expect public mourning and grand processions to attract millions before Khamenei’s burial next week, four months after he was killed aged 86 at his compound in the opening US-Israeli salvo of the Middle East war. AFP images showed mourners carrying his coffin aloft at the vast Grand Mosalla religious complex in the Iranian capital, with the casket draped in the colours of the Islamic republic that he led for more than three decades. State TV broadcast footage of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian paying his respects at Khamenei’s coffin on Friday afternoon, alongside parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Ahmad Vahidi, head of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the military, also made his first appearance since the start of the war in February. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has …