Overview
- State-organized public rites have run for days and the marathon procession on Monday drew officials’ claims of up to 15–20 million people across events.
- Funeral crowds repeatedly chanted calls for vengeance, including slogans targeting President Donald Trump and Israeli leaders, and state media showed anti‑US and anti‑Israel imagery.
- Mojtaba Jamenei, named successor in March, has not appeared publicly since the Feb. 28 attack and is reported wounded, leaving questions about succession and security.
- Tehran hosted senior political, religious and military leaders and invited foreign delegations while authorities plan to move the coffins to Qom, visit shrines in Iraq, and bury Jamenei in Mashhad later this week.
- Officials cast the events as a show of national unity after months of war and harsh domestic repression, but coverage notes social divisions and the funerals could harden policy and raise regional tensions.