Mourners at Khamenei funeral procession in Tehran vow 'revenge'

(6 Jul 2026) RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY: NO ACCESS ISRAEL MEDIA, PERSIAN-LANGUAGE TV STATIONS BASED OUTSIDE IRAN, BBC PERSIAN, VOA PERSIAN, MANOTO TV, IRAN INTERNATIONAL TV ++THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS ADHERING TO IRANIAN LAW THAT STIPULATES ALL MEDIA ARE BANNED FROM PROVIDING ISRAEL MEDIA, PERSIAN-LANGUAGE TV STATIONS BASED OUTSIDE IRAN, BBC PERSIAN, VOA PERSIAN, MANOTO TV AND IRAN INTERNATIONAL ANY COVERAGE FROM IRAN, AND UNDER THIS LAW IF ANY MEDIA VIOLATE THIS BAN THE IRANIAN AUTHORITIES CAN IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN THAT ORGANISATION IN TEHRAN++ ++EDIT CONTAINS INFLAMMATORY CONTENT++ ASSOCIATED PRESS - NO USE BY ISRAEL MEDIA, PERSIAN-LANGUAGE TV STATIONS BASED OUTSIDE IRAN, BBC PERSIAN, VOA PERSIAN, MANOTO TV, IRAN INTERNATIONAL TV Tehran, Iran - 6 July 2026 1. Wide of mourners attending a funeral procession for Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 2. Mid of a mourner holding placard with pictures of Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's former supreme leader 3. Wide of mourners 4. Mourners holding pictures of leaders ad placard with text (Farsi): "We all seek revenge for your blood" and "We should rise up! The world is with them, but our lord is with us!" 5. Various of mourners 6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Assad Ghasvand, 43, mourner: "Our primary goal from attending this ceremony is seeking revenge for our martyred Imam, we are not here to see him off, our Imam is among us right now, martyrs are alive." 7. Top shot of mourners 8. Woman wearing burial shroud and holding Iranian flag 9. Various of mourners 10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Sahar Zaraatgar, 25, mourner: "We are here to show that his path will continue, and every single one of these people will continue down his path with clenched fists and soon we will certainly avenge his death against the U.S. and Israel." 11. Wide of mourners 12. Mid of a mourner holding placard with graphic depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, with text (Farsi and English): "There will be blood" 13. Wide of mourners holding a large banner reading (english): "Don't close your eyes, Trump, you scum bag. We will kill you..." 14. Various of mourners 15. Wide of mourners chanting (Farsi) "death to Israel" 16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Marzieh Shokrollahi, 42, mourner: "Israel, the U.S. or anyone else that has even the slightest ambition about our country should know that we, from kids to the elderly, we all back this system. You can't even look at this country with bad intentions. We will stand and fight for this country as long as we are alive and until the last drop of blood. We won't let even an inch of this soil be taken away." 17. Mourners chanting (Farsi): "death to America" 18. Mourners chanting (Farsi): "death to Israel", placard with text "revenge in Trump" 19. Various of mourners STORYLINE: Iran began a procession Monday through its capital, Tehran, for the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His flag-draped coffin, and those of his family killed February 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck. Authorities decorated the truck’s side to resemble the ornamental grating that surrounds the shrine of an imam. The truck crept through crowds of black-clad mourners, who reached out to touch the grating. Some threw scarves and other items for attendants to brush against the coffin, a common practice in Iran seen as a blessing. Attendants sprayed misted water across the crowds to cool them in the summertime temperatures. AP video shot by Saeed Sarmadi Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/...