Iran Buries Khamenei, Vows to Kill Trump

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral has been going on for nearly a week, but today is the final day.

The final stage of the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, set off through the holy city of Mashhad on Thursday afternoon, after days of public ceremonies that drew hundreds of thousands of mourners in Iran and Iraq.

The procession in Ayatollah Khamenei’s hometown began hours later than scheduled and unfolded against the backdrop of renewed strikes between the United States and Iran. Iranian officials said that U.S. forces had struck railway bridges in the country’s northeast, disrupting passenger services on the route between Tehran, the capital, and Mashhad...

Tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch the truck carrying Ayatollah Khamenei’s coffin as it traveled through Mashhad to the sprawling Imam Reza Shrine where his body will be buried.

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Regime friendly reports are claiming 30 million people are participating in the funeral, making it the largest in world history. I don't think those figures are accureate but it's definitely a large number of people. Khamenei's coffin was apparently transported in a refrigerated grocery truck.

This is the end of it showing the size of the crowd. It's massive.

As noted in the tweet above, the current leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, still hasn't been seen in public for some reason.

Iranian state television broadcast footage of Mostafa Khamenei, the eldest son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading the funeral prayer over his father’s body inside the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad as part of the burial ceremony.

State media had earlier announced that the prayer would be led by a senior Shiite cleric based in Qom. It was not clear why Mostafa Khamenei led the prayer instead, but his appearance came as his brother, Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded their father, has not appeared at the funeral ceremonies.

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Perhaps he's worried about becoming the next target if he's seen in public. Iran has had two nights of U.S. attacks already and that may not be the end of it.

While officials in both countries have threatened further escalation, so far it is the United States that has landed most of the blows in the latest volley.

The U.S. military said it had hit about 170 targets in the past two days, while Iran’s strikes, which targeted U.S. military bases in several Middle Eastern countries, have been relatively few and largely intercepted by air defense systems.

And it's fair to say the enmity cuts both ways. Iran has been plastered all week with giant banners, in English, promising to murder President Trump. They set up a petition for people to sign.

These giant banners are everywhere.

Iranian newspapers are echoing the same threats.

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That particular building may be gone now.

President Trump is clearly aware of the threats. He spoke about it yesterday at a press conference.

He repeated that on Air Force One. "If I go, you go," he told the media.

There are apparently fresh strikes on Iran happening in the past few hours but the U.S. is said to have denied carrying these out. 

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It's currently just after midnight/Friday morning in Iran. So we may have to wait a bit to find out what happened here. Iran has been firing missiles at a lot of its neighbors this week. Maybe they responded. Or maybe this is the U.S. again. Stay tuned.

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all. 

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