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.
Some in the huge crowds, which were kept from getting too close to the convoy by large numbers of 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.
Alongside Khamenei, who was 86, lay coffins of family members also killed in the airstrike on Feb. 28 that brought an end to Khamenei’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 has not appeared in public or issued an audio statement since the war began.