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The six-day funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is underway, with authorities shutting down streets, airspace and daily life in Tehran.
Massive crowds are expected all over Iran. But one man is notably missing — Iran’s new Supreme Leader and Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei. On Sunday, DW’s Anthony Howard spoke to Behnam Ben Taleblu with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington D.C. about what the funeral is saying about the state of affairs in Iran.
As well as laying to rest the man who ruled the Islamic republic for more than three-and-a-half decades, the funeral is a chance for Iran’s authorities to showcase their resilience after five weeks at war with Israel and the United States.
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