A truck carrying the coffin of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crawled through Tehran’s thronged streets to chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” on Monday.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.Some in the huge crowds, which were kept from getting too close the the convoy by large numbers Iranian military and police, openly wept, while others called for revenge against President Donald Trump.A Reuters photograph showed at least one effigy of Trump being hanged.Red, white and green Islamic Republic flags and red banners with lettering calling for revenge lined the route.Mourners hang an effigy President Donald Trump in Tehran.Alkis Konstantinidis / ReutersAlongside Khamenei, who was 86, lay coffins of family members also killed in the airstrike on Feb.
28 that brought an end to the supreme leader’s nearly four-decade rule, when the U.S.and Israel launched an attack triggering the war with Iran.Latticework typical to the shrine of an imam, or religious leader, festooned the side of the truck carrying the coffins.
Photographs of Khamenei hung throughout the Iranian capital.In some he is seen with his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been named supreme leader but hasn’t appeared in public or issued an audio statement since the war began.
Another photo shows Khamenei with the superimposed image of a green-eyed little girl, his 14-month-old granddaughter Zahra Golpaygani, who was also killed in the Feb.28 airstrike.
A photo of Khamenei with his 14-month-old granddaughter on display during the funeral procession.NBC NewsWith talks between Washington and Tehran on pause amid the funeral events, one member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps told NBC News at the procession that the war would not be “over for us” until Khamenei’s death was avenged.It is rare for members of the IRGC to speak to journalists, with reporters able to move freely t...