Iran's Supreme Leader pledges revenge
Published: 12:07 PM,Jul 11,2026 | EDITED : 04:07 PM,Jul 11,2026
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Saturday that avenging his slain predecessor and father was 'the demand of the nation' and 'must certainly' take place, according to a written message released on his Telegram account.
Khamenei issued the message on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies for his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held months after he was killed in the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on February 28.
'We pledge to avenge the blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers,' Khamenei said in the message.