PressTV – July 4, 2026
Senior American officials waged an intensive behind‑the‑scenes campaign over the past five days to dissuade countries from participating in the funeral ceremonies of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, according to a report.
The US campaign was coordinated at the highest levels, involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US ambassadors worldwide, and included explicit threats to cut development aid and harm bilateral relations if nations chose to pay their respects to the martyred leader, Tasnim News Agency reported, quoting a senior Iranian source.
On June 26, Rubio issued a confidential directive instructing all US embassies and diplomatic missions to use various capacities of the United States to persuade host country officials that their participation in Iran’s funeral ceremony would be considered an unfriendly act by the United States and would have negative consequences for bilateral relations.
Two Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Rubio personally contacted his counterparts in at least five Arab countries to press them to stay away.
Meanwhile, US ambassadors in African nations went further, explicitly threatening to cut off American development aid if their host countries sent representatives to Tehran.
As a result of the intense US pressure, at least 13 countries, including three Eastern European nations, five African states, two Persian Gulf Arab countries, and two major East Asian nations, withdrew from the funeral.
Some of these countries sent messages of apology through intermediaries or diplomatic missions in Geneva and New York, attempting to justify their decision.
Others nominated lower‑level diplomats in Tehran to attend, but Iran declined to accept their participation.
The revelations come as Iran prepares for the historic funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, who was assassinated in a US‑Israeli airstrike on February 28, the first day of the war of aggression against the nation.
Despite Washington’s efforts, representatives from over 100 countries attended the ceremonies, underscoring the global respect for the martyred leader and the failure of America’s diplomatic pressure.
The funeral ceremonies, expected to draw up to dozens of millions of mourners, will be held over several days, with the body lying in state in Tehran before being transferred to Mashhad for burial near the holy shrine of Imam Reza.
Iranian officials have warned the US and Israel against any provocations during the solemn event.
The US neither knows nor cares just how dirty it has become.
The US warned friendly nations to stay away as israel was planning huge attack on the mourners but iran intercepted the signals
The United States has signed a 99-year agreement with Israel to build its permanent embassy in al-Quds on land confiscated from Palestinian owners, drawing renewed condemnation of Washington’s recognition of the occupied holy city as the regime’s so-called “capital.”
Israel and the United States signed an agreement under which Washington will lease a plot of land in al-Quds for 99 years at a symbolic cost of $1 to build the permanent US Embassy compound.
The deal was signed by Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee on Wednesday.
“The lease agreement for the land is for 99 years and the United States will pay Israel the sum of $1,” Huckabee said.
The site was identified by the Israeli rights group Adalah in 2022 as land confiscated from Palestinian families under the regime’s 1950 Absentees’ Property Law.
According to archival records cited by the group, the property belonged to Palestinian owners before 1948 and had been leased to the British Mandate authorities, arguing that the seizure of the land and its allocation for the US Embassy violate international law, including Article 46 of the Hague Regulations, which prohibits the confiscation of private property.
Palestine president says Trump killed Oslo Accords with al-Quds move
Land has also been sold in Hollywood and one piece to Tony Blair
LOL. The ragheads in jew-ran have been going on about how “all the world’s leaders are coming to ‘mourn’ the passing of the great buddha” for days and days. Then, when no one turns up, they say it’s because rubio made a few calls. Don’t you think, just maybe, it might be because no one gives a fuck?
What I find particularly amusing is how there’s supposed to be a war, but the jew-ranians sent a bunch of hairy-legged “footballers” to the world-cup-it-floweth-over, right in the middle of the country they’re “fighting”. You would think dump would be saying “they’re spies, or a ‘cell’ waiting to be ‘triggered’, or a discombobulated something-or-other”. But, no. He’s too occupied with licking the ballroom clean for the 250th visit of “bibbi” to the blight house.
Merz, Starmer,Macron go attend !
I no longer recognize the country I was born and brought up in.
Once israel is dead Iran can give up islam
Only problem is its all BS. Khamenei wasn’t killed & is still alive just like Jeffrey Epstein. Its all one grand Truman Show spectacle. If you don’t believe me, the Moses Mafia themselves admitted on ’60 Minutes’ TV Show (Pager Plot episode) that they rule the world:
“The world is our stage which we rule behind the scenes like Truman Show.”
I was the only to initially publicize this on altnews media sites, which strangely was ignored or dismissed.
A.A.
The rabid jackals of Mordor smoked the dude in February and they’re just having the funeral now? Must be a bit ripe…
Get a load of the gaggle of garish weirdos in the photo at the top…80% of them look like extras on a Star Wars set.
But for the Jewnited States to basically order or extort people to not go to the funeral is disgusting. Then again, the Jewnited States probably suspects that the rabid jew jackals are planning to bomb the funeral too. Nothing is sacred or off limits to the kikes.
thank you mr. crowley you are amazing
@ lewis jones fantast
evil always will exist + israhell is the center of evil !