{"id":927950,"date":"2026-08-18T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/report-from-tehran-millions-attend-ali-khameneis-funeral-amid-widespread-sense-of-victory-in-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:20:02","slug":"report-from-tehran-millions-attend-ali-khameneis-funeral-amid-widespread-sense-of-victory-in-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/report-from-tehran-millions-attend-ali-khameneis-funeral-amid-widespread-sense-of-victory-in-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei&#8217;s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people are estimated to be participating in the multiday state funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran this week. After ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran for over three dozen years, Khamenei was killed by a joint Israeli-U.S. airstrike on February 28. Now viewed as a martyr by both his religious base and the wider Iranian public&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/7\/7\/reza_sayah_tehran_ali_khamanaei_funeral\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Nancie Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people are estimated to be participating in the multiday state funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran this week. After ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran for over three dozen years, Khamenei was killed by a joint Israeli-U.S. airstrike on February 28. Now viewed as a martyr by both his religious base<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,192,43930],"tags":[6378,43929],"class_list":["post-927950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-report","category-sports","category-tehran","tag-report","tag-tehran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}