Hardline cleric urges retaliation for Khamenei killing

Hardline cleric Mohsen Ghanbarian called for retaliation over the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, saying senior officials would remain under threat unless those responsible were punished.

Speaking to a crowd gathered in Tehran on Tuesday, Ghanbarian said that without retaliation, "the current leader and other leaders of the Islamic Republic will always have to live in hiding."

"If we do not exact retaliation for the killing of our leader, then there is no doubt that the current leader and other leaders of the Islamic Republic will always have to live in hiding. That much is obvious. Those officials who went to Geneva probably saw the same tweet we did: if you do not make a deal, you will not return to your country. Mr. Ghalibaf is now on Netanyahu’s assassination list," Ghanbarian said.