Nicolas Pelham
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Composed elegies to Khamenei.
Businessmen have been prevailed upon to donate meat and rice by the Tan.
There are tents of supplies lining the procession route to encourage Iranians to join the procession.
Millions of civil servants have been given the days off.
You've got clerics who are coming from seminaries across the country, and thousands of buses have been brought on board to ferry mourners and the
There's even an app which provides accommodation for people coming from outside Tehran.
And as you'd expect, it's the most prominent commanders, the generals and the politicians.
You've seen President Masud Pazeshkian, the Revolutionary Guards Chief Ahmed Vahidi, you've seen three of Khamenei's sons, but there's one critical absence the
supposed successor, the current Supreme Leader Mushtaba Khamenei.
And so far since his father's killing on the twenty eighth of february and his appointment a few days later, nothing has been either seen or heard of him.
The Islamic Convention dictates that he should be leading funeral prayers, and of course there are still three days left to go for the funeral ceremonies.
It might be that he turns up on the last day, and it may well be that the authorities will say that he's absent for his own protection.
protection, but the fact that he's absent, that he hasn't been seen or heard of since his appointment, is leading to major questions in Iran about who is actually in charge.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that they have been emboldened by the outcome of this last forty day war with America and Israel.
They are continuing to display their strength and their control of the Strait of Homus and demanding that all shipping there goes through their shipping lanes and through their procedures.
They were looking extremely wobbly before.
this current war, not only had there been this nationwide mobilization against them, but the repression that followed alienated the population even further.
And what you've seen as a result of this war is
to some extent the country pulling together.
And
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