The Islamic Republic granted a number of non-Persian-language international media outlets permission to enter Iran to cover the funeral procession of Ali Khamenei, the former leader of the Islamic Republic, while the absence of independent or critical media is seen at this event. Among the media that published images and reports from this ceremony, the names Franceinfo, CNN, and BBC News can be seen. Itvnews, nbcnews, and indiatoday were also among the outlets that published reports claiming that a large crowd was present at Ali Khamenei’s funeral procession. The reports published by these media outlets mainly focused on the crowd’s presence, the course of the ceremony, and security measures—if all of these outlets had only published images from inside Tehran’s Mosalla.