Ali Khamenei burial set for July 9 amid massive Iran security ops

Tehran is preparing for the funeral of religious leader Ali Khamenei on July 9, more than four months after his death. Meanwhile, authorities are mobilizing the Basij militia and launching a major security operation ahead of what is expected to be a “historic” participation.

The long delay in the funeral raised questions about how Khamenei’s remains were preserved; Analysts say Islamic tradition generally requires immediate burial and discourages chemical embalming.

“Since Islam prohibits chemical embalming, it is almost certain that the mechanism is not embalming but refrigerated cold storage,” the counterterrorism expert said. Dr. Muhammad Omar he told Fox News Digital.

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“Shia law allows for delayed burial and cold storage in exceptional cases, and it is easy for a Religious Leader to obtain religious exemption,” he added.

“Bodies have already been kept in Iran’s forensic morgues for months, so freezing for four months is not exotic. ‘Religious and legal standards’ cover this,” Mohammed said.

The epic Operation Rage began on February 28 with a targeted US strike that killed Khamenei at his compound in Tehran. He ruled the Islamic Republic for 36 years.

“There may not have been many bodies presented. Khamenei was killed in an attack on the bunker, and others killed with him were recovered weeks later and identified by DNA,” Mohammed explained.

“A regime with a healthy body would not cancel the farewell, repeatedly change the burial place, and confirm that he could be buried only a few days later.

“This is less like respect and more like relics that they can preserve but not display,” he said.

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In this photo from Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks on a street in Tehran on May 31, 2019. (Hamid FOROUTAN/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian officials also portray the funeral as both a farewell to the leader and a show of power, with the slogan “We Must Take Revenge”.

Accordingly Iranian state mediaYaqub Soleimani, the Martyrs’ Foundation’s deputy for cultural and educational affairs and one of the funeral organizers, said on Wednesday that the ceremony would be held with “full splendor.”

Soleimani said the attendance of 1 million would make the event a “historic event” and “a national epic in memory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The program begins with public screenings in Tehran on Saturday and Sunday. The funeral, which local officials estimate could be attended by 15 to 20 million people, is planned for July 6.

Another parade is planned to be held the next day in Qom, one of the holiest cities in Shiite Islam.

“The numbers put out by the regime – close to 20 million mourners in Tehran, 35 million nationwide, more than 90 countries represented, 14,000 credentialed journalists – are not logistics,” Mohammed said. George Washington Program on Extremismin question.

“These are the messages. Tehran is spending everything it has to ensure continuity and power, because after the war, both are at stake.”

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military personnel march along Enghelab (Revolution) Boulevard as Iran’s Khyber Surface-to-Surface missile is unveiled during the El Beit Al-Moghaddas (Al-Aqsa Mosque) military rally in Tehran, Iran, November 24, 2023. The Revolutionary Guard unveils two new missiles during the rally. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

for meran internationallyTehran is also preparing for a large security operation for the funeral.

“The fact that the Basij and the IRGC carried this out is the story, not the detail,” Mohammed said.

“Basij is coordinating the logistics; highways have been turned into car parks, each district of Tehran has been allocated a province, five public holidays have been declared – and the Guard has crowd control.

“This is a mobilization disguised as a funeral. The apparatus that organized suffering this week is the same apparatus that suppressed the protests in January and denied funerals to the families of the people it killed during that period. American readers must keep these two facts side by side.”

While senior Iraqi officials will attend the funeral, representation from other major powers will be limited.

Although Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian personally invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India will send a lower-level official delegation instead.

Reports On June 30, it was confirmed that Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili would attend the ceremony.

“No major power is sending its senior leaders,” Mohammed said.

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“For a regime that claims to lead a front stretching from Beirut to Sanaa, regional attendance at the funeral of its founder’s heir apparent is an indication of the isolation demonstrated by the demonstrations.

“For Washington, this is a useful indicator: The war has made Tehran’s axis smaller and more regional than the regime declared.”