- Iran is staging a weeklong, five‑city funeral across Iran and Iraq for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with authorities expecting millions of mourners.
- The timing is deliberately symbolic—coinciding with the U.S. 250th Independence Day and the Shiite mourning month of Muharram—and could include the first public appearance of Khamenei’s son, the new supreme leader.
- The government has mounted a huge logistics and security operation (airports closed, ambulances, water sprinklers, millions of food portions), prompting both spectacle and safety concerns given past deadly crowd crushes.
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