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Iran Starts Khamenei Funeral With Stark Warning. A Potential Hormuz Foray By UK-France Irks Tehran

Iran Ali Khamenei Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Tehran United Kingdom France Kazem Gharibabadi Strait of Hormuz Strait United States
Mourners gather to pray for Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the second day of funeral ceremonies at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 5, 2026. Prayers were held July 5 over the casket of Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the second day of funeral ceremonies that have drawn huge crowds to pay their final respects in Tehran. Khamenei ruled the Islamic republic from 1989 until he was killed aged 86 in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28. (Credit: ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

As mourners gathered at Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran for the week-long funeral rites for the country's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran sent out a warning about the contentious Strait of Hormuz to the Western nations.

The strait "is not a stage for extra-regional powers to display military force," Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, as he warned against "any military activity" in the key choke point that became a flashpoint between Iran and the US during the Middle East conflict that dragged on to more than 100 days.

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