Brigadier-General Mohammad Akraminia says the army is using the ceasefire period to strengthen its combat capabilities, warning any “enemy mistake” would be met with a “decisive response”.
Mojtaba Khamenei will not be attending his father’s funeral
Paul Musgrave, an associate professor at Georgetown University of Qatar, has told Al Jazeera that it is understandable why Iran’s current supreme leader is not attending his father’s funeral.
“Iran has considered the possibility that Israel would carry out a second decapitation strike here [at the funeral]. In the past, Israel has used funeral processions to target political leaders,” he said.
Huge crowds gather in Tehran for funeral of slain Supreme Leader Khamenei
- More than 10 million people, including representatives from more than 100 countries, expected in Tehran for funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,who was killed along with family members at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran.
- Millions of people have attended funeral prayers for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the four members of his family killed in a US-Israeli air strike on his compound on February 28.
- US President Donald Trump says “neither side will shoot the other during the funeral proceedings” and talks with Iran will continue after the ceremonies.
New supreme leader ‘architect of Iran controlling Strait of Hormuz’
Iran’s new supreme leader believes in a more assertive foreign policy compared to his late father, Ali Akbar Dareini, a researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies in Tehran, has told Al Jazeera.
The African testosterone bombs he supports have no place for him.
Useful idiots like this pope will be the first to have their throats slit.
Pope Leo XIV visited Lampedusa, Italy, on the 250th anniversary of US independence, urging the world to treat migrants with greater humanity and calling on Americans to welcome and protect immigrants as a Catholic value of defending life https://t.co/sjQ7Nh2ZC7 pic.twitter.com/X0rqMyK24E
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 4, 2026
Khamenei’s sons are weeping.
— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) July 5, 2026
His victims’ families wept for decades. Nobody arrested them for crying. Unlike what your father did to ours.
Cry harder. It still won’t be enough.
However Mojtaba Khamenei who was appointed behind closed doors, is still invisible to the Public. pic.twitter.com/gZo0uBQQow
