For four months, Iran feared it was too dangerous to lay to rest Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader who was killed in an airstrike. Now, shielded by a tentative t

For four months, Iran feared it was too dangerous to lay to rest Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader who was killed in an airstrike. Now, shielded by a tentative truce, his funeral rites will begin. Link Iran begins funeral rites for Ali Khamenei, supreme leader killed in war For the surviving Iranian regime, the funeral offers an opportunity to project power after withstanding months of war with Israel and the United States.