A Telegram post published this morning, marked with a smiley emoji and referring to the late Supreme Leader as a 'dictator', jokingly claims that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are traveling to the farewell ceremony for Ali Khamenei in Tehran. The post is clearly satirical and has no basis in credible reporting.
The satirical post, circulated on the source this morning, mimics the tone of a breaking news report but is unmistakably a joke: it uses the emoji 😁 and calls Khamenei a 'dictator'. The claim that Netanyahu would attend the funeral of the man Israel killed in Operation Roaring Lion last week is absurd on its face. The Zioneer has been covering the real funeral of Khamenei, which began this morning in Tehran with delegations from dozens of countries. The post is not a credible report and should not be treated as news.
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- DevelopingNasrallah's son attends Khamenei's funeral alongside foreign dignitaries
- StrongTehran mayor says Khamenei funeral ceremonies to take place in Iraq on July 8–9
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