{"id":357958,"date":"2026-07-03T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/itv-news-returns-to-tehran-for-the-funeral-of-irans-former-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:00:40","slug":"itv-news-returns-to-tehran-for-the-funeral-of-irans-former-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/itv-news-returns-to-tehran-for-the-funeral-of-irans-former-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV News returns to Tehran for the funeral of Iran&#8217;s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/l00YsFhmwbo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"ITV News returns to Tehran for the funeral of Iran's former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l00YsFhmwbo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Killed in a US-Israeli air strike back in February, on the first day of the war. His burial was delayed for months as the fighting dragged on. Now Iran is expecting up to 20 million mourners to flood the capital from Saturday, in what could be the country&#8217;s biggest funeral ever. Khamenei, who led Iran for nearly four decades, was in charge during a brutal crackdowns on protesters over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini which saw thousands killed and tens of thousands believed to have been arrested..#iran #war #iranian #ayatollah #tehran <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killed in a US-Israeli air strike back in February, on the first day of the war. His burial was delayed for months as the fighting dragged on. Now Iran is expecting up to 20 million mourners to flood the capital from Saturday, in what could be the country&#8217;s biggest funeral ever. Khamenei, who led Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-357958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ITV News returns to Tehran for the funeral of Iran&#039;s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch ITV News returns to Tehran for the funeral of Iran&#039;s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for free, here on News ISC. 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