NEW YORK (VINnews)  — An Iranian speaker at the funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunday in the capital, Tehran.

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The comment represents the first, direct call for Trump’s death by an official representative at the funeral, which has seen posters and graffiti calling for the killing of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even as Tehran negotiates with the U.S. over a permanent end to the war, hard-line Iranians have rejected the deal in process and called for Iran to assassinate the leaders who instigated the Roaring Lion operation.

Mohammad Rasouli, a poet, drew calls of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” from the crowd. Speaking over loudspeakers at the funeral, Rasouli asked, referring to Trump: “Why is the most bastard 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.

Pay attention to the “new regime” in Iran: “Death to America, death to America,” the crowds at Khamenei’s funeral, including signs “Kill Trump.” pic.twitter.com/D9i9D8yu7j

— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) July 4, 2026

Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a 97-year-old Shiite cleric, later led a prayer Sunday at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla for Khamenei and his late family members. On hand were Khamenei’s sons Masoud, Meysam and Mostafa, as well as Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Revolutionary Guard head Gen. Ahmad Vahidi. Also there was Esmail Qaani, who leads the Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force.

Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei , did not attend. He’s believed to be in hiding after reportedly being seriously wounded in the airstrike that killed his father. Israel has threatened to kill him as well.

A far larger crowd than the day before attended the funeral ceremony on Sunday. Mourners dressed in black walked to the site, carrying banners and flags honoring Khamenei and also calling for Trump’s killing as the American president gave a speech in Washington for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States .

“We’ve had tremendous success,” Trump said, speaking of the American military. “You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran. We wiped it out, wiped out their military.”

Trump told Axios that U.S.-Iran negotiations are paused until the funeral ceremonies for the late Iranian Supreme Leader conclude on July 9, saying that both sides agreed to “take a week off” and that “neither side will shoot at the other” during that time.

Referring to scenes of mourning in Tehran, Trump said he was surprised to see Iranians crying because he thought people hated Ali Khamenei, adding: “Maybe it’s fake tears.”

He also said, “They are all there. One shot [and we can take them all out], but we are not going to do that because then we would have nobody to negotiate with.”