Iran’s show of strength

伊朗展示实力

Today in Focus

2026-07-08

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Patrick Wintour reports from the funeral of Ali Khamenei as the Iranian regime puts on a show of confidence and resilience.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, has Iran won the war?

  • Since we recorded this episode, the US launched the first new known airstrikes on Iran overnight,

  • targeting the Strait of Hormuz and violating an already fragile ceasefire.

  • For live updates on that story, head to theguardian.com.

  • Look at the pictures coming from Tehran.

  • The streets completely packed with a procession estimated anywhere between hundreds of thousands

  • and several million people, many of them waving the Iranian flag.

  • You would believe the official line from the Islamic Republic.

  • This is a show of strength and defiance, proof that Iran won't be cowed.

  • I'm just one dot on all those numbers you're seeing in from helicopters.

  • It's definitely very, very large.

  • When I was in the mosque yesterday, it was absolutely rammed, packed, and people couldn't get into the mosque.

  • There was clearly more than 56,000 there.

  • The enormous crowds have gathered for a week-long funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

  • The 86-year-old had ruled as supreme leader for four decades until he and members of his family, including his daughter

  • and grandchild, were killed in the first day of airstrikes of the US and Israel's war in Iran.

  • In his final weeks...

  • Khamenei presided over the killing of thousands of protesters.

  • The country was bitterly divided.