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• July 5, 2026

Large crowds loyal to the Islamic Republic gathered in Tehran at a funeral ceremony for Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint attacks between the United States and Israel at the start of the war. His second son and successor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, was conspicuously absent from his father’s