JAKARTA - Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said on Saturday that avenging the death of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, was the nation's demand and must be done.
The statement was delivered in a message read out at the funeral of the late supreme leader, according to Iran's state broadcaster IRIB.
"We promise to avenge your innocent blood and all the martyrs in these two wars from the criminal and dishonorable killers," Mojtaba Khamenei said in his message.
Ali Khamenei was buried on Thursday at the Imam Reza Mausoleum in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, marking the end of a week-long funeral ceremony.
He was killed in a US-Israeli attack on Iran that began on February 28, which Iran retaliated with a counterattack.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Israel recently shared intelligence with the US accusing Iran of drawing up a new plan to kill US President Donald Trump.
In a post on the Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump threatened to launch thousands of missiles at Iran if Tehran tried to kill him.
In June, Tehran and Washington signed a Pakistani-mediated memorandum of understanding to end the war that began in late February and pave the way for a more permanent peace agreement.
The memorandum of understanding calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iran, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite the understanding, the two sides resumed their attacks this week regarding commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US attacked a number of targets in Iran, which Tehran then retaliated by targeting US assets in various regions of the region.
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