Mojtaba Khamenei Vows Revenge After Ali Khamenei’s Feb. 28 Killing

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei renewed a pledge of revenge for his father’s killing after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had ordered the U.S. military to “decimate and destroy” Iran if Tehran attempted to assassinate him.

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In a message issued after the burial of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei described retaliation for his father’s death in a February 28 airstrike as “a national demand” that “will most certainly be carried out.”

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The exchange followed state-run funeral ceremonies for Ali Khamenei, during which mourners displayed calls for the deaths of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

NBC News reported that Trump earlier warned Iran against any attempts to assassinate him after Khamenei’s funeral saw numerous English-language banners calling for Trump to be killed along with Netanyahu.

NBC News also said Ali Khamenei, 86, was killed in the war’s opening moments on Feb. 28 and that Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was seriously wounded in the same attack, though no photo or audio recording of him has been released.

Trump’s threats escalated alongside diplomacy efforts, with the Associated Press reporting that U.S. and Iranian leaders traded threats as the interim deal to end the war buckled under crossfire.

In the same reporting, Trump wrote that “A thousand missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and said “completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran — PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”

BBC

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Oman for talks on the Strait of Hormuz, and the Associated Press said Oman and Iran agreed to keep talking “at the technical and political levels.”

The Associated Press also reported that senior U.S. officials demanded Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and ships won’t be attacked, while Iran insisted the strait remain under its control and that it be allowed to charge ships moving through it.

DW reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and his Omani counterpart exchanged views on “appropriate mechanisms for the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz,” in accordance with the ceasefire deal.

The threats and revenge pledges are playing out as the Strait of Hormuz remains a central flashpoint, with NBC News saying about a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed through the strait before the war began.

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NBC News reported that Iran’s grip on the strait during the conflict led to a global energy crisis, even as oil prices have sharply dropped since wartime highs of $120 a barrel.

In parallel, Newsweek framed the stakes as a risk to international shipping routes and global energy markets, tying the Strait of Hormuz to “roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.”

Newsweek also said the interim deal to end the war buckled under repeated crossfire and that talks aimed at salvaging the June memorandum of understanding have been strained by recent clashes and accusations of violations.

The Times of Israel reported that Ali Khamenei was buried on Friday in Mashhad in northeast Iran after a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies that coincided with renewed conflict with the United States following weeks of truce in the four-month-old war.