[News] Iran's Supreme Leader Is Dead, His Son Now Rules, and the World Is Watching a Funeral Four Months in the Making
The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been in cold storage since February 28; his son Mojtaba was installed as Supreme Leader in March under IRGC pressure; and as a six-day state funeral begins this week with burial set for July 9, indirect US-Iran nuclear talks have paused and the question of what kind of Iran the world now faces is only beginning to come into focus.
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