A performer at the funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for the death of US President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, Tehran.
The comment represents the first, direct call for Trump’s death by an emcee at the funeral, which has seen posters and graffiti calling for the killing of Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s been a hard-line demand even as Tehran negotiates with the US over a permanent end to the war that’s disrupted global energy supplies.
Mohammad Rasouli, a poet, drew calls of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”
Speaking to the crowd over loudspeakers at the funeral, Rasouli asks, referring to Trump: “Why is the most bastard man in the world still alive?”
The question drew cheers from the crowd.
A far-larger crowd for the funeral than yesterday is attending the ceremony.
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