Iran pledged to avenge the assassination of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah

Vehicles drive past billboards showing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and his late father, with the slogan “Thank you to loyal Iran” erected along the highway leading to Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, June 22, 2026

(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED AZAKIR)

Iran pledged to avenge the assassination of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a written statement attributed to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday. 

“We pledge to avenge your pure blood and the blood of all the martyrs of these two wars by holding their criminal and disgraced killers accountable,” the statement read, adding that such vengeance was “the demand of [the Iranian] nation.”

The statement went on to threaten the “criminals,” saying they “will take their dream of dying peacefully in their beds with them to their graves.”