Trump Faces New Threats as Funeral Crowds Turn on Him

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Shannon Maldonado 0:00
I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com website. I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background systems and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com.
Professor Devi Sridhar 0:58
I'm Shannon Maldonado, the founder of the Jaui gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are handy on the dashboard. Start the free trial at shopify.com website.
Ben Meiselas 1:26
It's Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral continues to grow. Now it's in Najaf, in Iraq. And as the Trump regime is doing everything it can to try to control the government in Iraq, you have Iraq's new prime minister declaring a national day of mourning for Ayatollah Khomeini. The signs that we're seeing in Najaf look an awful lot like the signs we saw in Qom and in Tehran. Lots of signs there saying, kill Trump. Lots of signs threatening Donald Trump. Lots of chants that we're hearing, death to Trump. kill Trump types of chance and And death to America chance and the Iranians are saying look we're talking about the government not to the people Let me show you what's going on in Iraq right now as noted the Prime Minister of Iraq has Declared today Wednesday a public holiday.
Ben Meiselas 2:30
You see the sign here hashtag killed Trump and I'll show you some B-roll right here of signs that also say kill Trump in the Najaf welcoming area. Najaf is in Iraq. So the first days of the profession were in Iran. Now it's in Iraq. Why Iraq? Huge Shiite population there. And the Ayatollah was a spiritual leader for the Shiite community. I've described him as basically the equivalent of the Pope for the Shiite community. Huge Shiite community in Iraq. We saw the president of Iran, Dr. Pazeshkin, was there, although he had to leave once the Trump regime attacked Iran's Qeshm, Sariq. uh and other uh uh cities right there on the strait of hormuz uh we'll show you some b-roll right here of the people in iraq holding uh the casket right there of ayatollah kameni right there and this was at the airport here's iran's president possess skin it's former uh it's foreign minister general raze deputy parliament speaker all walking alongside
Ben Meiselas 3:39
The Iraqi Prime Minister over here, you see them. More B-roll of that. You take a look right here. There's also Iraqi Christian pastors who are out there as well. You see signs in Iraq right now like this on a national day of mourning. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has declared today the national public holiday, as I noted. Here's another poster that we see in Iraq right now along the funeral route. It says, welcome you who humbled the U.S. and exposed normalization of relations with Israel. Let me just show you what the funeral procession looked like right here in Najaf. Because, I mean, this procession, not just huge in Iran, it's huge in Iraq. I'll show you some photos here, photos, photos, photos, other photos right here of the huge procession taking place in Iraq.
Ben Meiselas 4:34
I'll just show you about 10 seconds of it so you can see for yourself what's going on there. Now, you'll see over here, Iraqi Prime Minister al-Zaidi officially welcoming President Pesachian, who had to leave early. The Iraqi forces performed an official military salute for Ayatollah Ali Common a, let me show you what that official salute looked like here. Play this clip.

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