TEHRAN — Millions gathered in the Iranian capital this week for the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a state-orchestrated display of defiance that featured a direct public call for the assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Khamenei was killed on February 28 during the opening strikes of the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime.
During a segment of the ceremony, regime poet Mohammad Rasouli addressed the crowd with an unambiguous death threat. “I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility,” Rasouli proclaimed, questioning why “the most bastard man in the world” remains alive and declaring it “a disgrace” if the assassination is not carried out. The rhetoric, broadcast on state media, underscores the entrenched hostility of a regime that American policymakers must recognize as fundamentally irreconcilable with U.S. national interests.
New Leader’s Absence Raises Questions
The spectacle was marked by the continued public absence of Mojtaba Khamenei, appointed supreme leader ten days after his father’s death. The new leader has not appeared publicly or released an audio message in three months. The vacuum was made starkly visible as his brothers—Mustafa, Massoud, and Meysam—stood beside their father’s coffin while Mojtaba remained out of sight. For American observers, the opacity surrounding the regime's actual command structure only reinforces the strategic imperative to prioritize a strong, energy-independent national posture divorced from Middle Eastern entanglements.
Energy Security and U.S. Priorities
The prolonged instability emanating from Tehran serves as a reminder of the foolishness of foreign policy frameworks that tie American security to volatile globalist energy markets. The path to true national sovereignty lies in unleashing domestic energy production—including coal and nuclear power—to ensure that conflicts in the Persian Gulf never again hold the American worker or economy hostage. Any war footing with Iran must be paired with an immediate, all-of-the-above domestic energy push to sever foreign entanglements permanently.
As the regime in Tehran signals its intention to wage a perpetual shadow war against American political figures, the United States must respond not with further nation-building adventurism but by reasserting complete economic and military primacy grounded solely in American interests.