At Khamenei’s funeral, Iranian poet says ‘world is no longer a good place’ for Trump
Khamenei’s successor and son Mojtaba was absent, but hundreds of thousands of mourners were there to listen to Mohammad Rasouli
A performer at the funeral for Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the death of US President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday 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 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
That has been a hardline demand even as Tehran negotiates with the US over a permanent end to the war that has 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 asked, referring to Trump: “Why is the most b*****d man in the world still alive?”
The question drew cheers from the crowd, and again when Rasouli said that “the world is no longer a good place for” Trump.