The strictly choreographed funeral of Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has presented a rare insight into the image Tehran wants to project to the world and the men they see as central to it.

Dressed in black and draped in the red, white and green flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran, mourners held up posters and A4 printed sheets with pictures of Khamenei and his son…

TEHRAN: Tens of thousands of Iranians thronged a vast outdoor prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday to view the coffins of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed at the…