Something ugly broke out at Ali Khamenei's funeral last week, and it wasn't grief. According to a report from CNN News, as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian walked beside the former supreme leader's coffin in Tehran, mourners dressed in black turned on him. They didn't chant for Khamenei. They chanted "death to the compromiser," aimed straight at the president. It got worse for Abbas Araghchi. Iran's top diplomat, the man who negotiated the ceasefire with the Trump administration and helped get some sanctions lifted, had to run from the funeral entirely. A mob threw rocks at him. People screamed that he was a traitor and a sellout. Why is he invisible? Nobody really knows for sure. Some hardliners think he's hiding because he fears for his life. Others have gone further, suggesting he might actually be incapacitated. Either way, the silence has left a vacuum, and hardliners think Iran's visible leadership is exploiting it. Plenty of these hardline supporters showed up at the funeral, and they see the ceasefire agreement itself as a form of surrender rather than justice for Khamenei's death. In their eyes, the deal goes against what the new supreme leader would want, even though he hasn't said much of anything publicly to confirm that. The funeral, which stretched on for a full week, ended up becoming exactly the kind of platform hardliners wanted. Khamenei was killed in late February in Israeli airstrikes carried out in coordination with the US. There had been calls across Iran for the country to come together during wartime. Instead, the funeral turned into a stage for hardliners demanding renewed war with Washington and rejecting any deal tied to Trump's name. READ MORE: 2 US Soldiers Killed, 1 Missing After Iranian Missile Attack in Jordan That threat caused an outcry but Bakhshi hasn't faced any legal consequences for it, at least not that anyone knows of. Kamran Ghazanfari, a hardline member of parliament, put it bluntly in a video statement earlier this month. He accused officials of deliberately building up the Supreme Council for National Security, the body now handling Iran's most sensitive wartime decisions, at the expense of both the supreme leader and parliament. He called it a political coup happening step by step. Sagar is a journalist with an interest primarily in geopolitics and American domestic politics. Before joining Times Now, he wrote for Republic and Sw... View More