Don't be fooled by the images from Tehran.
The media shows the sea of people at Khamenei's funeral and lets you believe an entire nation is mourning.
They are not.
Look closely at the images. Zoom in. It's primarily and exclusively men. The regime's own base - the Islamists, the state employees, the ones bused in from the provinces.
Where are the women? Where is the half of the population the regime has whipped, imprisoned and killed for showing their hair?
They are not there. And that says everything.
Iran has 90 million people. Analysts assess that support for the clerical regime is minimal. When Khamenei was killed in February, many Iranians openly celebrated in the streets, dancing.
And remember who he was. A dictator who for 37 years oppressed, tortured and executed his own people. As recently as January, his security forces killed over 40,000 peaceful protesters.
The claim of "20 million mourners"?
It comes from the mayor of Tehran. The regime's own propaganda figure, passed on by Western media without a filter.
What you are seeing is not a nation in mourning. It is a regime staging its own legitimacy - while its new leader stands ready in the wings to pick up where his father left off.
The Iranian people are not mourning. They are waiting. For freedom.