Overview
- Public rites opened Saturday at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla where Jamenei’s coffin and those of slain relatives were displayed and thousands of people queued to pay respects.
- Authorities have deployed an unprecedented security operation with a 1.5‑kilometre perimeter, airspace and flight limits, IRGC and Basij mobilization, and mass accommodations for visitors.
- Mojtaba Jameneí, who was named supreme leader in March, has not been seen publicly and his attendance at the funerals remains unconfirmed amid reports he was wounded.
- Senior commanders used the ceremonies to warn the United States and Israel against new strikes and negotiators paused some indirect talks in Doha until the funerals end.
- The six‑day itinerary will move the cortege through Qom and Shiite holy cities in Iraq before burial in Mashhad on July 9, a delayed state funeral organized after the February killing that the government frames as proof of continuity and control.