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News website Axios quoted US President Donald Trump on Saturday as saying that peace talks had been paused for a week for the events surrounding the funeral.<\/p>\n
With many of the Iranian regime’s senior officials attending, Washington could take them all out with “one shot”, it quoted Trump as saying, adding: “But we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with.”<\/p>\n
The president also said he had been surprised to see Iranians crying, saying he thought people hated Khamenei. “Maybe it’s fake tears,” he said.<\/p>\n
In response to Trump’s claim, mourner Zahra Safaei, 50, told Reuters: “We did not make a revolution 47 years ago to shed fake tears. We did not sacrifice all these martyrs to shed fake tears.”<\/p>\n
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Leaders including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian were in attendance for the former supreme leader’s funeral, but Mojtaba Khamenei was absent [Reuters]<\/p>\n
The Associated Press and Guardian report that people were calling for US President Donald Trump’s death on Sunday, with poet Mohammad Rasouli saying at a poetry recitation before the prayer that “Trump’s murder is our responsibility”.<\/p>\n
Rasouli could also be heard drawing calls of “death to America” and “death to Israel”.<\/p>\n
People in the city were seen on Sunday holding banners that included slogans “kill Trump”, “kill Bibi”, in reference to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and “we will avenge”.<\/p>\n
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Mourners could be heard chanting against Trump and Netanyahu on Sunday [Getty Images]<\/p>\n
The Tehran events alone are expected to attract more than 10 million mourners from across Iran, with strict security measures imposed and official media warned of a risk of crowd crushes.<\/p>\n
Iran’s official news agency Irna reported on Sunday that more than 4,000 people had visited medical centres located in and near the Grand Mosalla – though no deaths had been recorded.<\/p>\n
Images from the funeral show mourners being sprayed with mist to keep them cool and medics carrying an elderly woman away on a stretcher.<\/p>\n
Khamenei’s coffin is being displayed alongside those of four relatives who were killed in the strikes on Tehran, including his one-year-old granddaughter Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani.<\/p>\n
Throughout his rule, Ali Khamenei pursued a policy of confrontation with the West and for years provided support to anti-US and anti-Israel armed groups across the Middle East, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n
After the processions through Tehran on Monday, Khamenei’s coffin will be moved to Qom on Tuesday, then a significant Shia site in neighbouring Iraq on Wednesday, before the burial on Thursday in his north-eastern hometown of Mashhad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was conspicuously absent from his father’s funeral, as senior regime figures joined thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16097,240707,240708,1077,85,87,46,29157,159370,43,12521,211150,132371,3336],"class_list":["post-526697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-funeral-proceedings","tag-funeral-service","tag-getty-images","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-revolutionary-guards","tag-supreme-leader","tag-tehran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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