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Middle East and north Africa

Ruth Michaelson

Iran’s ‘funeral of the century’ for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei draws regime’s top brass out of hiding

The nation’s political heads emerged to attend the week-long tribute, but his son and successor was still absent

Tue 7 Jul 2026

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