Ahmad Vahidi appears publicly in Tehran and attends services for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as city authorities begin a dayslong national mourning.Analysts say Ahmad Vahidi is central to Iran’s negotiating posture toward a possible permanent end to the war with the US and belongs to a close circle around Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who is hiding after being wounded in the Israeli strike that killed Ali Khamenei and several family members including Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani.Funeral events will move from the
Grand Mosalla to other cities in
Iran and to sites in
Iraq, with
Tehran closing streets and grounding some flights, and officials say
Ahmad Vahidi had kept a low profile earlier to reduce the risk of targeted assassination.