TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mojtaba Khamenei has vowed to exact revenge on the United States and Israel for the killing of his father and predecessor as Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on February 28, at the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
"Revenge is the demand of the nation and must certainly be carried out," according to a written statement attributed to Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, which was broadcast on state television.
"We pledge to avenge the blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers," Mojtaba said, adding that Iran's "vengeance" was "inevitable."
Mojtaba Khamenei's statement on Saturday comes as Iran held funeral ceremonies for the slain supreme leader that lasted several days.
Mojtaba has not been seen in public since the strike that killed his father. The US claims that he sustained severe injuries in that attack in late February.
Millions Flock to Ali Khamenei's Funeral Procession in Iran
A procession carrying the remains of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been attended by millions of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Khamenei and several members of his family, whose coffins are at the focus of the procession, were killed in an airstrike at the very outset of the war launched on the Islamic Republic by the US and Israel on February 28.
The massive turnout was encouraged by Iran's regime to give a show of what it says is the country's continued strength and unity as it holds negotiations on a permanent end to the war.
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