An Iranian newspaper publishes a list of reprisals targeting Trump, Macron and Merz

The ultraconservative daily Hamshahri, close to the Tehran regime, published an image on Saturday evening depicting several Western leaders as targets to be eliminated in retaliation for the death of Ali Khamenei.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are at the top of the list, their foreheads marked with a crosshair. Around them, in this image published by Tehran's municipal newspaper, appears the French president. Emmanuel MacronGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz in prisoner's uniform, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth.

The slogan accompanying the image leaves little room for ambiguity: "Revenge is inevitable. Criminals will take to their graves the desire to die peacefully."

This publication comes amid a climate of vindictive rhetoric embraced by the new Iranian regime. Mojtaba Khamenei, son and successor of the assassinated Supreme Leader, declared on Saturday at his father's funeral that "revenge is the will of our people and it must inevitably be carried out." He stated that a list of targets had been drawn up, without naming names: "These criminals, whose names appear on a list, will take to their graves the wish to die peacefully in their own beds."

Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28, during the first day of a joint US-Israeli attack. His son succeeded him as head of the regime, but has not made any public appearances since the beginning of the conflict.

Israeli intelligence services, according to CNN citing anonymous sources, had informed Washington of the existence of a "concrete" Iranian plan to assassinate Donald TrumpThe Wall Street Journal had reported the same information.

Iran also accuses several European states of having indirectly supported the strikes by allowing American military aircraft to cross their airspace, without having sought to condemn or prevent the attacks against its territory.