'This One Too Will Be Overthrown': Khamenei Mocks Trump With Sarcophagus Cartoon

Last Updated:January 12, 2026, 13:45 IST

Khamenei shared a cartoon on X, portraying Trump as a crumbling sarcophagus, warning leaders with "arrogance" are overthrown, amid deadly unrest in Iran.

Trump has warned of military action against Iran amid deadly protests; Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Image: AP/File)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday launched a sharp attack on US President Donald Trump, sharing a provocative cartoon on social media platform X amid deadliest wave of unrest in the Islamic Republic in recent years.

The the image posted by Khamenei depicted Trump as a crumbling ancient Egyptian-style sarcophagus and was accompanied by the message, “This one too will be overthrown."

In his post, Khamenei warned that leaders who rule with “arrogance and pride, passing judgment on the entire world," often meet the same fate as historical tyrants. Drawing parallels with figures from history, he wrote, “That father figure who sits there with arrogance and pride, passing judgment on the entire world, he too should know that usually the tyrants and oppressors of the world, such as Pharaoh and Nimrod and Reza Khan and Mohammad Reza and the likes of them, when they were at the peak of their pride, were overthrown, This one too will be overthrown."

The post comes at a time of heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, with Iran grappling with widespread protests and an intensified crackdown that rights groups say has resulted in hundreds of deaths. Meanwhile, the US President has repeatedly issued warnings of possible American intervention in support of protesters, further escalating the war of words between the two countries.

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