Mojtaba Khamenei Vows Revenge for Father After Funeral
He said Iran had compiled a list of targets and called revenge a national duty as tensions with the United States and Israel deepened.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump warned Iran of "overwhelming military force" if leaders attempted his assassination, while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei declared on Saturday that avenging his father was "the demand of the nation."
- The escalation follows funeral ceremonies for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died in airstrikes months earlier. Mojtaba Khamenei called for retaliation against those he termed "criminal and disgraced killers."
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Friday that The Treasury would isolate Iranian elites from the financial system, as renewed clashes pushed Crude oil to settle around $71 per barrel, a weekly gain of about 4%.
- Following resumed attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned an Iranian financial facilitator. OFAC also targeted exchange houses moving billions of dollars for Iranian banks.
- Analysts suggest these exchanges signal a shift from symbolic mourning toward operational intent within Tehran's security establishment. The rhetoric undermines hopes for the tentative accord reached earlier this year.
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The funeral of the ayatollah was accompanied by the absence of the country's leader.
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Mittelstand CafeStuttgarter Nachrichten: Stuttgart (ots) - In recent days, three things have happened in Iran, all of which are bad news for Israel and the US and convey this message: Peace remains far away. First, the funeral ...
The resurgence of hostilities comes at the end of a tribute to former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The regime continues to maintain a discourse particularly vis-à-vis the United States and Israel. - "We have no reason to give in": how Iran multiplies calls for revenge from the United States and Israel (International).
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Iran's supreme leader vows revenge for the killing of his father and predecessor
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed that Iranians would continue to avenge the killing of his father - late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei - and of other top officials killed during the war triggered by the U.S and Israeli strikes in Iran on February 28.
Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, promised to avenge the death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died in a U.S.-Israeli air strike at the beginning of the war, while he remains unappeared publicly since he took office. In his first statement since the funeral ceremonies of the former Iranian leader, Mojtaba Khamenei said that retaliation against those responsible for the attack is inevitable. "That revenge is the will of our …
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