Iranian state media has published images showing the wreckage of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's residence in Tehran, the compound known as Beit e Rahbari, as the week long funeral proceedings for the slain leader continue across Iran and Iraq.
Satellite imagery obtained shortly after the February 28 strikes that killed Khamenei had already shown the residence, his administrative offices, and the surrounding security perimeter completely leveled, in what analysts assessed at the time as the result of deep penetrating munitions used to destroy a Tier 1 target in the opening salvo of the joint American Israeli operation. Khamenei himself was not present at the compound when it was hit, having been relocated in advance, though the strike killed several members of his family, including his daughter, son in law, daughter in law, and a grandchild.
The renewed images of the destroyed residence are surfacing now as part of the broader propaganda effort accompanying Khamenei's funeral, which began July 3 with a ceremony near his former Tehran home and has since moved through public viewings at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, a procession through the capital, and stops in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, ahead of Khamenei's burial in his birthplace of Mashhad. Iranian officials say they expect between 15 and 20 million people to take part across the various ceremonies.
