Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Saturday that avenging his slain father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, was “the demand of the nation” and “must certainly” be carried out, Anadolu reports.
The remarks came in a message delivered during funeral ceremonies for the late supreme leader, according to Iran’s state-run broadcaster IRIB.
“We pledge to avenge your innocent blood and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and dishonorable murderers,” Mojtaba Khamenei said in the message.
Ali Khamenei was buried Thursday at the Imam Reza Shrine in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, bringing a week of funeral ceremonies to a close.
He was killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Feb. 28 and were followed by Iranian retaliatory attacks.
