'We are not going to let them go!' - Mourners in Tehran demand retaliation after US-Israel strikes kill Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei

"Hundreds of Iranians gathered in a central square in Tehran on Sunday to mourn Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in joint US-Israel air strikes on the presidential complex, with some demanding revenge. Footage shows mourners crying, thumping their chests, chanting: 'Down with Israel', waving Iranian flags and holding signs reading: 'My martyred leader, I swear to your pure blood, your path will continue'. "Mothers of all American soldiers are going to burst into tears in the [next] several days, because we are not going to let them hit our leadership and just go," proclaimed demonstrator Soheil Saber. "We have lost our father, lost our Imam. He was like a father to us, our warmth. He was the father of the Ummah," said a mourner. Alireza Sharifi, a local, urged Iranian officials take revenge and 'strongly defend' Iranians. "The revenge of all the martyrs, our dear leader, Imam Khamenei, at the forefront, the girls of Minab school, and everyone." "We are actually failing for the third time now, meaning we are actually being deceived by America, starting with the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) that they tore up, the 12-day war that happened in the middle of negotiations, and the current war that has started again in the middle of negotiations," he added. According to the Head of the Islamic Propagation Coordination Council of Tehran province, citizens gathered across the main squares of the capital to commemorate the death of the supreme leader."