Iran will pursue a legal complaint against Israel and the United States for the assassination of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the Iranian government spokeswoman, Fatemeh Mohajerani, told reporters on Sunday during the second day of Khamenei’s funeral.
“The process of filing a complaint after collecting evidence and documentation has begun and is being followed up,” she said, according to a report by Iran’s Mizan News Agency.
“The Presidential Legal Office, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is seriously following up on this case,” she added.
Mohajerani also said that Khamenei’s “instructions” weren’t fully followed while he was alive, and blamed this on the current state of Iran, adding that now “our most important task is to accurately implement his guidelines and policies.”
Khamenei was killed back in February, during the opening strikes of Operation Roaring Lion, while his son and the current leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was wounded during the attack.
Second day of Khamenei’s funeral opens, Mojtaba not present
The second day of Khamenei’s funeral opened on Sunday, with Iranians being heard chanting “kill Trump, kill Bibi” in videos shared by Iranian outlets.
Crowds gathered to pay respects at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran as the week-long mourning ceremony continued.
Three sons of the slain Ayatollah prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba did not make an appearance. Iranian state media said senior clerics would lead funeral prayers in his place.
Television footage showed Khamenei’s coffin draped with the Iranian flag and topped with his black turban. It was placed, along with four other coffins of his slain family members, on a large black platform that resembled the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure at the center of Islam’s holiest site in Mecca.
Miriam Sela-Eitam and Reuters contributed to this report.
