Nicolas Pelham
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first heard Jul 2026
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Authorities are billing Hamali's funeral as a referendum on the future of the Islamic Republic.
They're celebrating his death and the funeral not as a defeat but as a vindication, a final triumph over foreign enemies, something very much in keeping with the arc of Shia tradition.
So it's a display of strength, but at the same time, there are deep cracks in the regime's hold on the show.
Ayatollah is the spiritual authority in Shia Islam.
They have command over followers across the Shia world.
But what was particularly unique in Iran was that the spiritual authority was also the political authority, was the supreme leader that the country, ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, had been, to all intents and purposes, a theocracy.
And at the
The film of this was Ali Hamanae, who had ruled over Iran as both a spiritual authority but as a supreme leader for the last thirty seven years.
The country is now at a crossroads.
It's really not clear whether that theocracy is going to survive.
They're an extraordinary six days of funeral ceremonies, and we're about halfway through.
Until now we've seen him lying in state surrounded by red tulips in a stadium sized prayer hole, the Masalah in central Tehran.
Today we're going to see his coffin carried through the capital before travelling to Khum, one hundred and fifty kilometres to the south.
It will then go across into Iraq, thereby revealing the Islamic Republic's reach in the region, and from there it will be flown to Mashhad, which is the birthplace of Hamanei, and will become his burial place nearly one thousand nine hundred kilometres to the east.
It's about demonstrating the strength of the Islamic Republic and its rulers at home.
They've had a very rocky past few months, not just because of the war which pummeled many of their bases, but also because of the demonstrations that preceded them when there were nationwide calls for the Islamic Republic to go.
And
It's also demonstrating its strength in the region and to the world.
I don't think it's a coincidence that it's overlapped with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States.
Pop stars have been enlisted to
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