Day 129 of the WarMonday, July 6, 2026
Day 129 — Tehran Buries Ali Khamenei as Mourners Stage a Mock Hanging of Trump and Call for His Killing; Hardliners Turn on Pezeshkian Chanting 'Death to the Normalizers'; Snipers and the Butcher-Judge Guard the Procession; the Diaspora Marches in Houston
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The Funeral of the Dictator — Trump Hanged in Effigy in Tehran
Iran- The funeral procession for Ali Khamenei began at 6 a.m. Monday, July 6, after two days of his body lying at Tehran's Prayer Hall, RadioFarda reports; the ceremony ran under intense security with international news agencies restricted.source
- At the funeral, supporters of the Islamic Republic staged a mock hanging of President Trump and threw stones at his image while chanting 'America is the Great Satan'; per AP, ceremony host Mohammad Rasouli publicly called for Trump's killing before thousands.source
Hardliners Turn on Pezeshkian — 'Death to the Normalizers'
Iran- Khamenei loyalists and Jalili hardliners turned on President Pezeshkian during a mourning ceremony, chanting 'death to the normalizers' and 'death to the traitors' — a sign the MoU with Washington is fracturing the regime from within.source
- Masih Alinejad frames the paradox: the US-Iran MoU is 'totally silent on hanging people in public,' and the regime read that silence as a green light — staging Trump's effigy hanging the same week it signs deals with Washington, using the same rope it uses on protesters.source
The Old Guard on Parade — Snipers, the Butcher-Judge, and Jamkaran
Iran- Babak Taghvaee reports snipers from Iran's special police units, including Reza Gholami Aram, were deployed in Tehran to protect regime supporters during the funeral — the same units accused of gunning down protesters.source
- Chief Justice Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei — the official Open Source Intel says ordered the massacre of 40,000 Iranians earlier this year — was spotted at the funeral, while Jamkaran mosque in Qom, where Shias await the return of the 12th Imam Mahdi, expects Khamenei's body soon.source
The Diaspora Answers — Marches Abroad, Defiance at Home
- As the funeral unfolded, patriotic and monarchist Iranians marched in Houston, Texas on Sunday, July 5, to declare their opposition to the Islamic Republic — one of several diaspora counter-demonstrations timed to the state ceremony.source
- Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei eulogized Khamenei's era as one of principled foreign policy 'less influenced by change,' while Visegrád 24 likened the choreography to Kim Jong Il's 2011 funeral — 'two different dictatorships but similar actors.'source