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A casket draped in black makes its slow procession through Tehran, past millions of mourners whose chests beat in unison against the late-summer heat. Red fists—the funeral’s symbol—rise above a sea of black-clad bodies, fists clenched not in grief alone but in defiance. The slogan is stark: “We must rise”.
This is the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for thirty-six turbulent years, killed in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli war on February 28. It is not merely a religious rite. It is a geopolitical manifesto, a metaphysical referendum on empire itself.
