Jane Holt
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🇮🇷 Over 100 countries sent delegations to Khamenei's funeral and the guest list tells you almost everything about the new geopolitical map. Russia sent Medvedev as Putin's personal envoy. China sent senior parliamentary leadership. Pakistan's Prime Minister came with the Army Chief in tow. Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan's Taliban deputy PM, Oman, all present. Hezbollah and Hamas delegations in the hall alongside Shia scholars from across the world. And zero European countries, after Iran's Foreign Ministry explicitly told them they weren't invited because they were on the wrong side of history. This funeral is also a realignment map. Every country that showed up and at what level is a data point about where they see themselves in whatever comes after Khamenei. The countries that sent heads of state versus special envoys versus parliamentary officials versus nobody at all is a complete picture of the post-war Middle East order being drawn at this very moment around a coffin in Tehran. Source: Middle East Spectator, Al Jazeera, CNN / Writer: Oliver
















