Iran begins long farewell to former supreme leader with calls for Trump’s death | First Thing

Mourners gather around the coffins of Ali Khamenei and members of his family, including his infant granddaughter Zahra Mohammadi Golpaygani. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Mourners gather around the coffins of Ali Khamenei and members of his family, including his infant granddaughter Zahra Mohammadi Golpaygani. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images First Thing: Iran begins long farewell to former supreme leader with calls for Trump’s death Millions gather in streets and officials appear in public at Tehran funeral of Ali Khamenei in show of defiance. Plus, origin of mysterious ‘space balls’ in Australia revealed Good morning. Iran’s week of mass funeral processions ⁠for the former supreme leader Ali Khamenei has seen public calls for the killing of Donald Trump . Khamenei was killed along with other members of his family on February 28, the first day of the US and Israeli war against Iran. The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour in Tehran reported the funeral was designed to show the Trump administration that Iran retained social resilience. Attendees included senior political, military and judicial officials, suggesting they have assurances that the tentative US-agreed ceasefire precludes attacks on the ceremony. The al-Quds force commander, Esmail Qaani, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief, Ahmad Vahidi, were both in full view – inconceivable earlier in the war. Who made the direct call for the killing of Trump? During part of the ceremony, the poet Mohammad Rasouli said: “I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility. Why is the most bastard man in the world still alive? … Why should we not kill the man who killed our imam? It would be a disgrace if we did not.” Where is the new supreme leader? Appointed 10 days after his father’s death, Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public or recorded any audio message for three months. His absence was made more conspicuous when his brothers, Mustafa, Massoud and Meysam, stood alongside one another beside their father’s coffin. Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’ View image in fullscreen Police officers block medical students during a protest demanding the reopening of the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince last week. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP Carlos Giménez, a Republican congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian migrants. Returning about 350,000 Haitians to their chaotic, dangerous homeland would be a grave error, Giménez said, after the US supreme court’s ruling that the Trump administration could cut off temporary legal protections. What did Giménez say? He said: “[TPS] is meant to safeguard those who are either fleeing countries that are failed states and are at risk of going back to them or countries that really can’t handle them right now, as is the case with Venezuel