Leader’s Funerary Amidst Vows of Vengeance

Date: 04 July 2026 - 22:54

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Saturday’s multimillion gathering of mourners on start of the 6-day funerary of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution that will take his blessed physical remains to the holy cities of Qom, as well as to Karbala and Najaf in Iraq, before final repose in the mausoleum of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, is indeed a fitting farewell.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei who was and will remain forever the scholar, statesman, and saint that he was, continues to loom larger than life to the horror of his dastardly murderers, whom divine wrath will certainly afflict as was evident by the vociferous vows of vengeance of the aggrieved Iranian masses for his sacred blood.

The fact that his funeral ceremonies began on July 4, a date the USA (United States of Atrocities) is celebrating as the 250th anniversary of what it calls its cessation from the British crown, portends the fast approaching end of American hegemony.

The day before yesterday (July 3) was the 38th anniversary of the dastardly downing of IRAN AIR Flight 655 with 298 passengers on board, including 63 children, bound for Dubai from Bandar Abbas, by the USS Vincennes as part of celebrations marking the eve of US independence anniversary.

Ayatollah Khamenei was then the President of the Islamic Republic and he denounced this crime against humanity by the US in the strongest terms, calling it a “deliberate, unforgivable atrocity” by “criminals and murderers” who should be brought to justice.

For 37 years, as the able successor of the Father of the Islamic Revolution, he strove to strengthen Iran in all spheres to the chagrin of the US and the illegitimate Zionist entity in the face of their satanic plots of sanctions, riots, takfiri terrorism, wars, and target-killing of leading figures, including military commanders and scientists.

Ayatollah Khamenei, following the 2020 murder of Qasim Soleimani by the US, hailed him as “the international face of the resistance”, led the funeral ceremony himself in a state of mourning, and promised vengeance against the criminals as “the most wretched of humankind who bloodied their foul hands” with the general’s blood.

On February 28 this year, he himself achieved the honoured status of martyrdom as victim of a joint plot and unprovoked attack of the mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrified terrorist Donald Trump – the devilish duo unrepentant for its cowardly killing of one of history’s most valourous paragons of virtue.

No wonder, the Iranian public and officials have promised vengeance for the sacred blood of martyrs – irrespective of the so-called talks for securing Iran’s inalienable rights in all spheres – since the wounded hearts of the Iranian people and freedom lovers worldwide will find no solace except through retribution against the perpetrators.

The bloodthirsty US-Zionist enemy has committed the greatest crime and terrorist conspiracy of contemporary history and without the least doubt will meet their end, sooner than they realize.

The wiping off the Israeli cobweb from the world map is less than a decade away, as foretold by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei while divine retribution will also strike the terrorist US with July 4 no longer an event to be celebrated anywhere.