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Who will succeed Khamenei as Supreme Leader and what factional alignment will dominate Iran's post-war leadership remains publicly unresolved.
People's Daily is entirely absent from Khamenei funeral coverage, omitting China's perspective as a country with significant strategic and economic ties to Iran.
Funeral as political theater is confirmed; succession process and diplomatic intent remain speculative.
Folha de S.Paulo covers the funeral procession and crowd size while reporting Iranian critics questioning spending on lavish ceremonies amid economic collapse, integrating individual dissent with structural critique.
BBC News frames the funeral as 'the spectacle Iran wants the world to see,' with Lyse Doucet providing institutional interrogation of Iran's political theatre and the 'death to America' chants.
SCMP covers crowds gathering for the funeral procession as Iranian authorities allowed the massive public mourning, framing it through structural institutional governance.
Times of Israel covers mourners calling for revenge at the funeral, the appearance of Ahmadinejad (whom the White House reportedly backed), and Russia's plan to return staff to Bushehr nuclear plant, framing Iran's political transition as a security threat.
La Repubblica profiles Ahmadinejad's reappearance at the funeral as a sign of US preference for the former hardliner, and analyses Tehran's use of 'war gains' as pressure cards against Trump.
Yahoo Japan covers the revenge cries at Khamenei's state funeral, presenting the domestic political signal without deeper institutional analysis.