Overview
- Public homage officially began on Saturday, July 4, with the coffin displayed at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla as the first day of a six-day series of processions and rites.
- Authorities have deployed heavy security, closed parts of the city, declared days off and set up transport, shelter and upgraded communications to manage what they say could be 15–20 million attendees in Tehran.
- Organizers plan a procession through Tehran, stops in Qom and two Shiite holy cities in Iraq before burial in Mashhad on July 9, and delegations from about 30 countries are attending while no European heads of state were invited.
- The presence of Mojtaba Khamenei, named successor in March after being wounded in the February strikes, remains unconfirmed and he has not appeared publicly since his nomination.
- Many mourners chanted calls for 'vengeance' and anti‑U.S. and anti‑Israeli slogans at the ceremonies, a development that could complicate the fragile ceasefire and ongoing diplomatic talks with Washington.