Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Pawan Khera on Sunday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not condemning US President Donald Trump’s recent “provocative and irresponsible” remarks on Iran during the funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Khaira’s statements came in response to Trump’s statement in which he said that he could have eliminated the country’s senior leadership “in one shot” as they gathered to attend Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran.
Khera described Prime Minister Modi as “vulnerable” and his government unable to condemn “reckless insinuations of violence by their masters in the US”.
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The Congress leader noted that around 10 million people, including a delegation from India, attended the Ayatollah’s funeral.
“In this context, President Donald Trump’s provocative and irresponsible threats are severely damaging to the peace process in West Asia. What is worrying for us is that the mixed-up Prime Minister and the government he leads are unable to muster the moral courage to condemn such reckless hints of violence by their masters in the United States,” Khera said in a post on X.
Trump’s “one shot” statement.
Khaira made the comments following Trump’s statement in which he referred to the large funeral gathering in Tehran and suggested the gathering represented a military opportunity. But he said such a move was unlikely because diplomatic efforts were continuing.
“They’re all there. One shot [and we can take them all out]But we will not do that because then we will have no one to negotiate with.”
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Trump also said he was surprised to see so many people crying over Khamenei, because he believed many Iranians were against him. “Maybe they are fake tears,” the outlet quoted him as saying.
Iran responds to Trump The Iranian embassy in Armenia said the United States, which celebrated the 250th anniversary of its independence on July 4, could never understand the massive mourning over Khamenei’s death because it “has no civilization, no history, and no honor.”
The Iranian embassy said: “People can be killed, but ideals cannot be killed. You killed Ayatollah Khamenei, but in reality, you broke a perfume bottle and its smell spread everywhere. You do not understand these things because you have no civilization, no history, and no honor.”
Khamenei’s funeral, which comes more than four months after he was killed in US-Israeli raids, attracted large crowds attended by prominent figures from nearly 100 countries in Tehran. The ceremony began on July 3 and will end with his burial in his hometown of Mashhad in the Imam Reza Shrine on July 9. The funeral procession will travel through multiple cities in Iran as well as Iraq – Najaf and Karbala. Security measures were tightened due to the large crowds that witnessed the funeral of the dead leader.
