Overview
- Iran opened a week‑long state funeral on Friday with Khamenei’s coffin laid in state at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla and public viewings scheduled before processions to Qom, Iraqi shrine cities, and burial in Mashhad on July 9.
- Authorities have imposed maximum security measures in Tehran, closed offices and parts of the city’s airspace, and prepared tents and crowd logistics to manage millions of expected mourners.
- More than 100 foreign delegations or dozens of visiting dignitaries have arrived to pay respects, turning the ceremonies into a diplomatic gathering that state TV and officials frame as regional solidarity.
- Mojtaba Khamenei, the son named supreme leader in March, is not attending public events for security reasons after being reportedly wounded, a gap that raises questions about leadership visibility during the rites.
- The funeral is being used as a political signal during a fragile ceasefire and a 60‑day negotiating window with the United States, and it follows Khamenei’s death in the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli strikes that triggered the wider war.