Passersby walk past a billboard featuring Ali Khamenei on a street in Tehran, Iran, on June 6, 2026. (Credit: Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters)
Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called on Thursday for a massive turnout at Ali Khamenei's funeral to avenge the supreme leader's assassination by U.S.-Israeli strikes at the start of the war.
"I invite all the Iranian people... to write a glorious page in the history of Islamic Iran through your presence" at the funeral ceremonies starting Saturday, Ghalibaf said in a statement, adding: "The nation's call for vengeance must ring in the ears of the whole world."
Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called on Thursday for a massive turnout at Ali Khamenei's funeral to avenge the supreme leader's assassination by U.S.-Israeli strikes at the start of the war.
"I invite all the Iranian people... to write a glorious page in the history of Islamic Iran through your presence" at the funeral ceremonies starting Saturday, Ghalibaf said in a statement, adding: "The nation's call for vengeance must ring in the ears of the whole world."
