The absurdity audit opens with the ceremony itself: a state-orchestrated event in Qom that treated public grief like a performance metric. Iran’s government scheduled processions, speeches, and crowd logistics with the precision of a military drill, ensuring every frame showed the expected level of reverence for Khamenei.
Further findings reveal mass mournings that arrived on time, on message, and in numbers too consistent to pass as organic. Reviewers flagged the absence of any rogue displays of emotion, noting that deviations from the script appeared to be non-existent.
The final verdict lands hardest on the system: when a funeral doubles as a loyalty test, the real institution being mourned is the one that writes the program.
