Amid massive US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, reports confirm that former Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani was buried at a Tehran shrine without his head.
Former Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has been buried in Tehran, with reports indicating his body was decapitated. Shamkhani's death occurs amid an unprecedented wave of United States and Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian military and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps infrastructure.
The breaking news channel اخبارفوری خبرفوری جنگ امریکا فوری, which utilizes regime-aligned terminology, reported that Martyr Ali Shamkhani was buried in the courtyard of the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine. The channel stated that according to witnesses, his head was not on his body at the time of the burial.
The popular activist news aggregator Vahid Online وحید آنلاین corroborated the account, attributing the initial report to the state-owned Farhikhtegan newspaper. Highlighting the regime source, Vahid Online noted that according to this state newspaper, per witnesses during the burial, his head was not on his body.
Shamkhani's burial takes place during a week of severe regional escalation. Following the destruction of Iranian air and naval forces by US and Israeli strikes, the Assembly of Experts formally appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
Sources agree on the details of Ali Shamkhani's burial at the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine without his head, though neither explicitly names the exact strike or cause of death. Vahid Online emphasizes Farhikhtegan's status as a state-owned newspaper to underscore that the regime itself acknowledged the condition of the body. Regime-aligned terminology such as Martyr has been preserved in English translation to maintain fidelity to the source.