Iranians show support for Khamenei by attending funerals, speaker says

An opposition figure in Iran who had been under house arrest for many years says Israel’s influence is not limited to the military and their influence is everywhere.

“Any sensible and concerned person can feel their footprint in security and political decisions,” said the Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi.

“The country’s security capabilities should be focused on containing Israel, not political critics, cultural figures, or even women’s hair,” he added.

A burial ceremony took place at Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran on Sunday for Amir Ali Hajizadeh, former commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force.

Slain IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami was also buried today in Shahr-e Rey, south of Tehran.

Meanwhile, Major General Ali Shadmani, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, was buried in Hamedan, west of Iran.

On Saturday, a funeral procession was held for those killed in Israeli attacks in Tehran, without the presence of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

US officials have lost credibility by relying on Persian-language media mercenaries to influence Iranian youth, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday.

“US officials who had lost all credibility by buying their Persian-language media mercenaries with green cards, visas, and a handful of dollars have now personally stepped in to carry out psychological operations on the minds and consciences of Iranian youth... However, it is clear that they will fail again,” he said without naming any media.

“The Iranian nation knows these snakes, and they will again fail to break the unity and solidarity of the nation and to shatter Iran, because these poor people have understood the Iranian people through the lens of a few foreign-paid, contemptible, and ridiculous puppets, and their understanding of this nation is incomplete and false,” Ghalibaf said.

“The gambler Trump’s positions have no credibility. The disrespectful US president, in his imaginary virtual world, reinstates sanctions that have not been lifted.”

“His positions are part of a psychological operation plan to instill fear in the people.”

Mehdi Nemati, deputy for cultural and social affairs of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Organization (FARAJA), was killed in Israeli attacks, Iran’s police command announced Sunday.

Nemati had fought alongside Qassem Soleimani in Syria and Iraq, state media reported.

71 people died in the Israeli strike on Evin Prison, Asghar Jahangir, spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary said Sunday.

The victims included administrative staff, soldiers, inmates, prisoners’ family members visiting or handling legal matters, and neighbors living near the prison, according to Jahangir.