While the United States was busy throwing a huge birthday party this weekend, Iran was busy staging and preparing a week-long funeral for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The old despot has been dead for a while, but the funeral was on hold while there was a war on. Months later, we are learning who exactly is kissing Iranian ass by showing up to this funeral.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a key mediator in the U.S.-Iran talks to end the war, joined mourners on the first day of the multiday funeral ceremonies for the slain Iranian leader.

Pakistan’s interior minister also arrived in Tehran, while a slate of top Iranian officials attended Friday’s ceremonies, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Head of the Judiciary Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Leaders from countries across the globe — including Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Cuba and Serbia — were also present in Tehran to pay their respects.

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and deputy chair of its Security Council, is also expected to attend the ceremony Friday, according to the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov.

Delegations from China, Namibia, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan met with Iran’s president in Tehran for the ceremonies. An official delegation from India was also in attendance, as well as Turkmenistan National Leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.

The Iranian government praised the foreign officials for their “solidarity against recent US-Zionist aggressions” and referred to Khamenei as a “martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution,” seeking to portray the longtime supreme leader as a beloved and respected figure.

You know who is swallowing this bullshit wholesale? Calla Walsh. Remember her? The pampered radical princess of the left who is whiter than printer paper, who broke with the Democratic Socialists of America years ago because she thought they didn’t hate Jews enough, has now moved to Lebanon and is busy cosplaying an Islamic Handmaid’s Tale fantasy on Iranian TV. So of course, she is in Iran for the funeral.

Walsh, 22, who has been previously arrested for antisemitic vandalism in the US, spoke with Iran’s PressTV to talk about her attendance at Khamenei’s funeral over the weekend, where she hailed him as a heroic figure standing up to America and Israel.

“He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide,” she said.

“To me, he was the greatest anti-imperialist leader to have lived during my lifetime.”

The regime ally, who lives in Lebanon, claimed more Iranians than ever were now standing with the regime following the war with the US, slamming the conflict as a total loss for America.

“It’s still fair to say that the US has been more humiliated than it has ever been before in its history,” Walsh said.

The pro-regime activist ended her praise by describing the slain supreme leader as a “humble” man whose teachings, along with those of the Islamic Revolution, could be “especially” used in the US.

This is absolute insanity. Pure, unfiltered brainwashing on full display.

Calla Walsh, the founder of Palestine Action US, flew out to attend the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei.

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At this point, Calla Walsh has made her bed in Lebanon, and I hope she enjoys it.

But missing from the funeral events is the current ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei. His brothers have showed up, but the nepo baby is nowhere to be seen.

Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to make an appearance in the funeral ceremonies, which are unfolding over several days. He is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father.

Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, a 97-year-old Shiite cleric, led the prayers at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla for the late Khamenei and his family members killed in the strike.

On hand were Khamenei’s other sons, Masoud, Meysam and Mostafa, who had not been seen since the war. Revolutionary Guard head Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who was photographed for the first time since the war on Thursday, could be seen in the crowd by Associated Press journalists, flanked by plainclothes security forces and wearing a black baseball cap.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf — who has led the negotiations with the U.S. — and Esmail Qaani, who leads the elite Quds Force of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, also attended.

Of course, the assumption is that Mojtaba is so disfigured that he will never be seen in public. Either that, or he is being kept barely alive by the IRGC to use him as a figurehead leader while they call all the shots. But the Monday services in Tehran showed no sign of Mojtaba.

However, those who are being interviewed by the media don’t seem to be particularly bothered by this. They have other things on their mind.

As the funeral has gone on, however, there’s increasingly been threats from mourners to avenge Khamenei’s death. Mourners and the signs they carry have called for the killing of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Today that we are here for the funeral for our leader, it’s a very tough day,” mourner Fatima Hassan said Monday morning. “We are not here to say goodbye to him, we are here for revenge. And we will take revenge.”

The crowds showing up to the funerals do look quite good on camera, but one has to wonder exactly who all these people are, and if they are being told to show up now or be shot later. Are there true believers in the crowds? Absolutely. Are they all truly sad that Ali Khamenei is dead? I doubt it. A regime that slaughters people en masse in the streets is based on coercion and fear.

While the funeral is ongoing, all diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran are on hold, as President Trump himself indicated.

“We knocked the hell out of Iran and they’re dying to settle,” Trump said during a speech at Mount Rushmore Friday night on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary. “They want to settle so badly.”

“We gave them a week off for a funeral, isn’t that nice,” he added.

Negotiations between the two countries are now set to resume in Pakistan on July 11, sources told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network Saturday.

We shall have to wait and see how “nice” Iran considers this gesture. But since Pakistani leaders are attending the funeral, and there are plenty of calls for revenge in the air, I have a feeling that this consideration isn’t going to be given much weight.

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