The week-long funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader who was killed in a US-Israeli military strikes four months ago, is expected to draw crowds numbering in the millions. The new rulers of the Islamic Republic will make sure of that.
The Tehran hardliners will use every propaganda trick in the book to convey their message
For the regime, this is much more than a funeral ceremony; it is a religious and political spectacle, a chance to present to the world its desired image of a beloved leader mourned by millions of supporters.
The Tehran hardliners will use every propaganda trick in the book to convey their central message that Khamenei may be dead, but the regime lives on.
Iman Attarzadeh, spokesman for the funeral planning committee, had this eve of funeral message: “We view it as the beginning of a new era in the Islamic Republic”.
