Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran
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Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran

Huge scale of funeral for supreme leader across five cities is intended to relay message of resistance to rest of the worldIn the small hours of Friday the police roadblocks, stalls, posters and army vans were starting to appear across Tehran as millions of Iranians prepared to attend the long-delayed six-day funeral ceremony for Ali Khamenei’s, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 turbulent years.Killed in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli attack on the country in February, the funeral is intended to

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The Guardian World — The Guardian World
3 July 2026
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