Dubai: US President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Saturday after the funeral service for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei featured explicit calls for the American leader's assassination, highlighting the deep tensions gripping the Middle East as an interim ceasefire agreement risks collapsing under repeated regional crossfire.

Trump posted the warnings on his Truth Social platform after senior American officials demanded that Tehran issue a public assurance stating that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and that vessels navigating the critical maritime corridor will no longer face attack.

Thus far, the Iranian government has refused to comply, maintaining instead that the shipping route remains under its sovereign jurisdiction and asserting a right to levy fees on passing vessels—a stance that challenges decades of international precedent designating the strait as an open waterway.

The escalating rhetoric follows several days of US airstrikes directed at Iran, alongside retaliatory Iranian rocket fire targeting multiple countries across the region. Those initial hostilities were triggered when Iran attacked three vessels in the strait earlier this week.

“1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat,” Trump wrote on his website.

Trump added that the US military would “completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”

With inputs from AP