{"id":7770,"date":"2026-07-07T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/trump-shocked-by-massive-turnout-at-khameneis-funeral\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:20:33","slug":"trump-shocked-by-massive-turnout-at-khameneis-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/trump-shocked-by-massive-turnout-at-khameneis-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump SHOCKED by Massive Turnout at Khamenei&#8217;s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fFMnIBGsf4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader for 37 years, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28, 2026, at the start of the Iran-Israel war. His funeral \u2014 delayed for months by the ongoing conflict \u2014 is now underway across multiple Iranian cities and Iraqi holy sites from July 4-9, with authorities preparing for as many as 20 million mourners, a scale comparable to the funerals of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 and Qassem Soleimani in 2020.<br \/>\nPresident Trump told Axios he was genuinely &quot;shocked&quot; by the outpouring of public grief, having expected a very different reaction given the regime&#8217;s history of suppressing anti-government protests. Iranian officials, meanwhile, have framed the massive turnout as a defiant message to Washington that the regime survived the war intact.<br \/>\nThe funeral has also become a flashpoint of tension, with mourners chanting anti-American slogans and Trump making his own provocative comments about Iran&#8217;s military situation and the concentration of Iranian leadership at the event.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f In this video:<\/p>\n<p>What actually happened at Khamenei&#8217;s assassination and funeral<br \/>\nWhy Trump says he was &quot;shocked&quot; by the turnout<br \/>\nWhat the massive funeral means for Iran&#8217;s regime going forward<br \/>\nThe current state of U.S.-Iran tensions after the war<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #Khamenei #Trump #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #BreakingNews<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader for 37 years, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hqdefault-74.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}