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Tens of thousands flooded Tehran’s streets for the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose coffin—wrapped in the national flag—was carried six miles past landmarks, following two days of lying in state. His death, reportedly from an Israeli airstrike that also wounded his son Mojtaba, comes amid a war ignited by a U.S.-Israeli joint strike four months prior. Mourners chanted for vengeance, hurling stones at a U.S. president’s billboard, while former president Ahmadinejad made a rare public appearance. Amid the grief, diplomacy pulses: Iran and the U.S. recently inked a preliminary peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with nuclear talks still underway. The funeral’s journey continues to Qom, then shrine cities in Iraq, before ending in Khamenei’s hometown of Mashhad.

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