Iran's supreme leader absent as senior officials attend ayatollah's funeral

The update

Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the attack which killed his father at the onset of the US-Israel war with Iran

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: BBC notes that responses are already forming.

The iran backdrop

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in iran, supreme, leader, absent, senior, as BBC has documented.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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Our iran read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of iran, supreme, leader, absent, senior: Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the attack which killed his father at the onset of the US-Israel war with Iran.