Lintas Opini – Berita Terkini, Akurat, Terpercaya – 06 Juli 2026 | Mourners dressed in black flooded into Iran‘s capital Monday for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with throngs of people calling for the death of US President Donald Trump.
Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, and those of members of his family killed Feb. 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the US, sat on board a truck decorated to resemble the ornamental grating that surrounds the shrine of an imam.
The massive turnout, encouraged by Iran’s theocracy as a sign of strength, came as it negotiates with the U.S. over a permanent end to the war. Helicopter images aired on Iranian state television showed a massive crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or Freedom, Square for kilometers down a multilane street of the same name.
The crowd appeared to be larger than the one that turned out for the 2020 procession for the late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which drew over 1 million people. Authorities offered no immediate crowd count as the truck crept down the street.
But people alongside the truck and elsewhere on the route carried placards, signs and banners calling for Trump’s death. “Today that we are here for the funeral for our leader, it’s a very tough day,” mourner Fatima Hassan said. “We are not here to say goodbye to him, we are here for revenge. And we will take revenge.”
The coffins will be taken through the streets of Tehran on a 12-hour journey to Mehrabad International Airport, said Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hasan Hasanzadeh, who is overseeing the procession.
Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.
Khamenei was 86.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said any Iranian leader who “attempts to advance plans to destroy Israel will be thwarted.” He added that Khamenei was killed “because he initiated and led the plan to destroy Israel.”
The six-day funeral of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei is currently underway, more than four months since he was killed by US-Israeli strikes on Tehran in late February.
Typically, Muslim burials take place very soon after death, meaning that the months-long delay in holding Khamenei’s funeral is “unusual,” Rowena Abdul Razak, an expert on Middle Eastern history, has told CNN.
There are many factors behind this delay, Abdul Razak, a lecturer in the history of the Middle East and Africa at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, explained.
Firstly, the war between the US, Israel and Iran caused “a lot of displacement, destruction and bombings,” which “made it hard to have the funeral,” Abdul Razak said.
Iranian authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday after the slain leader is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.
Khamenei’s son and successor Mojtaba has still yet to appear publicly since his father’s killing. Iran’s hardline and controversial former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attended the funeral, marking a rare appearance after years of estrangement from the slain leader.
Thousands gathered to mourn Khamenei as Trump boasts ‘one shot’ could take all the regime’s leaders ‘out’
The new supreme leader of Iran did not attend the funeral of his father, although three of his other sons prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday.
