Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader for 37 years, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28, 2026, at the start of the Iran-Israel war. His funeral — delayed for months by the ongoing conflict — is now underway across multiple Iranian cities and Iraqi holy sites from July 4-9, with authorities preparing for as many as 20 million mourners, a scale comparable to the funerals of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 and Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
President Trump told Axios he was genuinely "shocked" by the outpouring of public grief, having expected a very different reaction given the regime’s history of suppressing anti-government protests. Iranian officials, meanwhile, have framed the massive turnout as a defiant message to Washington that the regime survived the war intact.
The funeral has also become a flashpoint of tension, with mourners chanting anti-American slogans and Trump making his own provocative comments about Iran’s military situation and the concentration of Iranian leadership at the event.
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What actually happened at Khamenei’s assassination and funeral
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What the massive funeral means for Iran’s regime going forward
The current state of U.S.-Iran tensions after the war
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