Tehran Public Cemetery Director Wants to Bury 5,000 Americans

The genocidal Iranian regime’s public cemetery director claims he can’t wait to dig graves for thousands of American soldiers.

Now, no matter what the mainstream media tells you, there is no evidence that the Trump administration has any plans for a land invasion of Iran, so I think Mohammad-Javad Tajik is in for a big disappointment. But the point of looking at his remarks is not that he is actually going to be able to bury thousands of American soldiers, but rather because he is a spokesman for the regime with which we have to deal to end this conflict. It is just one more reminder that the only way truly to end the war with Iran, which has been ongoing to a greater or lesser extent for nearly 50 years, is to bomb the ayatollahs into oblivion.

The conversation with Tajik occurred on Iranian TV back on August 13, so it took place before Donald Trump confirmed he was not engaging in any more talks with the Iranian regime but was launching an "economic D-Day." While Trump was not proposing to put boots on the ground in Iran, Tajik was fantasizing about it, dreaming of witnessing the massacre of American troops. "We have prepared 5,000 graves in the deserts near Tehran," Tajik asserted on Ofagh TV, per a translation by Middle East Media Research Center. "This is my responsibility — for both our martyrs and enemy casualties." Notice how both Tajik and the TV host chuckle as they talk.

#ICYMI: Tehran Public Cemetery Director Mohammad-Javad Tajik: We Have Prepared 5,000 Graves in the Desert for the Americans; If They Invade Iran, They Will Inevitably Die pic.twitter.com/asMz33agmc
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 22, 2026

If you have followed the war between Hamas and Israel, you will know that Islamic terrorists always refer to their dead jihadis as "martyrs." It is not clear if Tajik expected the 5,000 graves to cover both the "martyrs" and the Americans or if they were mainly for Americans; as Oscar Wilde would say, this is a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations it has very little reference to the actual facts of real life.

Moving on, we find Tajik asserting, "If they attack by land or if they are heliborne, they will inevitably die. It would be a waste to take their bodies to morgue in order to avoid decomposition." He then emphasized that his employees "really did" dig the 5,000 desert graves. The TV host claimed in reply, "It would be a disgrace even for Iranian vultures to feast on enemy corpses."

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Iranian strikes recently killed four more Americans, bringing U.S. deaths in this conflict to 18. Dozens of Israelis have died in Iranian strikes. Meanwhile, since the Tehran terrorists cannot succeed in killing thousands of Americans and Israelis, they have been busily slaughtering political dissidents within Iran, reportedly up to 52,000 in the initial wave of crackdowns alone, according to Trump.

Yet the Persian people who love freedom are aiming to spark another and more decisive uprising, hoping the U.S.-Israeli strikes will have weakened the regime considerably, though we could certainly take out more of its terrorists. Some Middle Eastern experts have suggested the U.S. provide arms to these Persians, which would actually be in our vital interests, much more so than the vast amounts of weaponry we have sent to Ukraine with no result. We cannot forever delay the elimination of the Iranian regime that made "death to America" its number one goal.

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The “Death to America!” Regime and its propaganda arms are openly pushing for the murder of Barron Trump, the President’s 20-year-old son. pic.twitter.com/zropCEAsHE
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