Funeral Rites for Supreme Leader Khamenei

Good morning . Let's try this again. I'm Malcolm Nance. I'm the host of Black Man's Spy Groundhog Day edition Day one hundred twenty eight of the U . S. Iran war . It is round dogs day. We just did this ten minutes ago . We're having technical difficulties and apparently I'm going to place the blame squarely on substack this one came up nicely. It was on before and as soon as we went live, audio was lost. So my apologies to you . As you see, I do not have a big technical crew of people. I don't have an external studio, I don't have staff. I am not Don Lemmon. I am not one of these organizations just me, my high speed shoes it for the What's it? Hey, look, we're wearing hats today. Waji has his hodgi cap and I'll wear my EOD sellers hat . But yes, you're right , roasted pistachios. It is never a dull moment here on Black Man's Spy. Somebody says Dave and Karen says she's been having issues with substance since yesterday afternoon. That's quite possible. I just want to let you guys know here in the Northeast United States it has moved across the country . Extreme heat is impacting . We had a brownout yesterday , a brownout because of the number of air conditioning systems that went on. It hit one hundred one degrees yesterday and we're in the north. We're not like Washington DC. I have two hours north of New York City . You know, the city easily went over a hundred . Washington D,C tomorrow is estimated to be one hundred and seven degrees . I haven't hit temperatures like that since I lived in the Middle East , right? That's middle that's not even Dubai weather . All right, because Dubai is on the water . All right. It's not Abu Dhabi weather. This is not even El Ain. El Ain is a is a, what do you call it an oasis , okay ? This is way down in the Rubak alley , right? The empty water between the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman and the Great Sand Sea that they have down there. That's the last time I saw one hundred and seven degrees. But now we're getting it here in the United States. Somebody says, Close my shades. That's a good point. Hold on, let me see. It might improve the light . Roger, good morning . While I'm good morning my shades, yeah, that's a good point because I just spent twenty minutes closing every shade in this house and I actually think that I'm overextending the light that I'm getting in this room . So Wadja, how are you this morning? How's temperatures out where you're at? It's seventy degrees and humid and cloudy, but that's okay because I'm indoors . That's okay because you're indoors. That's the nice. That's very nice . Well , as you also see, I do not have a lighting regime here . Yeah . What's in your part of the world ? I'm a lot in the book today . If you want to go through the book, that's a animal. How's things where you are in your house and your partner or husband or whatever. Is anything cooler than copaceetic Everything is okay taking it day by day. You know, the days are long and the years are fast . Yeah . Starting to sound like the Hadiths. Okay . My lighting is fine. Actually, I did cut down my light because we have a lot of artificial light coming in, a lot of sunlight. And I do not, like I said, I used to have a studio in this house. MSNBC installed a studio in the basement with like one hundred and eighty degree lighting, adjustable lighting. They actually had a remote camera . And people who lived around here in upstate New York would come to my house and sayy, He M,alcolm, I got dot aa h it. Can I do the hit from MSNB studios? MSNBC studios, Malcolm's house. And so yeah, they would run down in our in our basement. We had a we had these old service. Well, they were did they take it down ? Yeah, when COVID happened, when they left MSNBC to go into the Ukrainian Army, they were there the next day. They had a crew up here disassembled everything everything and left . It was the rise of COVID and that it was that period in COVID where everyone started to remote and Zoom became the default default became the default way of communicating remotely. And then from Zoom came up, we got multiple different companies suddenly realized there's billions of dollars in remote chatting and remote linking . And so you remember the famous video of the guy on the BBC, right ? Who is sitting there in his home office? The little kid comes walking out like this and then the little sister comes running in to grab them and then the mom comes running them and the shot. It became a global sensation . Oh my of that. So that's a good question. So watch it, give us some back story stuff going on and I'm going to go open the chat for today, which is day one hundred twenty eight. So I'll be off camera for a second , but I can hear you. I am actually on the chat right now Just palas. What kind of hat are you wearing today? Well, this is actually my grandpa's hat. This is the hat we usually wear with the turban if you want to hear what's its name. Story. This is Kawuk. My grandpa's name is Mahmadmadasen Al Kari . His dad was the founder of the library in the second holiest mosque . And he was one of the Qura of the Haram Almadeni . He was one of the recital readers and reciters Kara, one who reads . Yeah , reciters of the Quran in the Segonolius Mosque was very well known . But an interesting story for you, I came to the United States when I was about twelve . Chad is up, by the way . So if you think about schools in Saudi Arabia are separated, boys and girls . And in Saudi Arabia, I never interacted with a woman outside of my family . That was just never . Did you do it? Well my, first day in school in the U. S. and my first class was all girls . The teacher , the students , I'm walking in and they go you know, like the and I'm like oh they're yelling at me I'm in the wrong class. I'm walking Oh my god behind me and they're trying to get me back into the class. I'm trying to explain to them that I'm a boy and they think that I'm a girl . And that was a whole ordeal . Elli half roll Well , that's a funny story for you if you wanted a story That's a good story . That's incredible. So that hat is called What again? How do you pronounce it? Kawk. It's Kawk made for turbans for people in Mecca who wear wraps . Yeah . That's why it's a printed out because once you wrap the turbine, if you have a flat hat, you won't see the hat. But it's taking the wrap. I don't know if you saw on the chat, Rahama Bintauud, she is laughing her ass off at your stuff So Joan Vorhe said she wants to see your cats. I didn't know you had cats. I don't have clean walk . I mean lion and one of my partners . Yeah , stunker cup smells. Well, that's amazing. That is a great story. No, they are not giving you cats. If the cats wander into the shot, that's one thing. That's my rule on my dogs . My dogs do not leave her calmly gather outside of the recording room because he'll come in here and he'll come knocking everything because he wants attention . They're cats . Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I he looks at so sad when I close the door, I'm like, I'm sorry. But you cry, it's so funny. Oh yeah, yay. Okay, that being said, we are nearing one thousand followers , which means we don't have to repeat ourselves when we start to show . I know that we've been at this. Oh, we're on time. Nine minutes. We usually take Miss Happy Banter. This is how by the way, all intelligence briefings start, right? It always starts with us standing around funny stories talking about our cats, our wives, our spouses , and other crazy things that are going out We are nine people from Star to Show and No , Andrea Cushman, you will not be seeing our animals. Look at it, they're all demanding to see our animals Anyway , no, we have not missed you have not missed any discuss on Israel moving into our military . That is a special show . By the way, Waji, if you would like to have that show on Sunday , I'm going to do that. That is about the what is it the National Defense Authorization that does this merger at the tech level of the Israeli and U. S. military. We need to do a show on that and people are asking I have actually then I would be interviewing you and then I have then two episodes on Sunday. You and Deborah Amos . Deborah Amos. I love Deborah. Yeah . Okay. My friend . Oh , you have plenty of friends. All right, we have hidden once since Jamal Kartugi's execution. Of course you have. Oh yeah, yeah What a story. All right , we will go ahead and start now. We've reached our one thousand person mark. We won't lose most of our followers or after repeat everything. We will have that discussion about section one hundred and nineteen of the National Defense Authorization Act . We need to have that discussion . So that being said , Waja, I want to wish you happy K ay because today is the day of Ema did I say Imam. Yes, Imam, Ayatollah Ali Alhameni his funeral day even though in fact, according to Islamic custom, his eighty nine year old ass was in the ground within twenty four hours. What we are having now is the National Memorial Funeral Ceremony . So is that correct? You said it's a few hours ago you put out a subst ack saying that you or you put out a substack comment that you were monitoring the funeral. Hit us with K events . The funeral has had delegations from different countries, including Qatar, Pakistan, India , Tajikistan who else Russia , China, Turkey, Iraq, Bosnia , Hungary , Bangladesh , and many other countries all showed up to pay their respect for the previous supreme leader . Even though that Qatar was attacked, they still showed up . They are a main negotiator and they do show up for these things they have they are, I think if you would look at Qatar and you would label them out label them as professional diplomats and negoti ators in their own best interest mostly . But then you have had the processions also include his granddaughter that was also killed in that attack . And I've seen the boxes where they're supposed to hold the body of the supreme leader and the body that's supposed to hold his daughter. The reason that we suspect that the Supreme Leader would have been buried right away is because in Islamic Sharia , as soon as you are buried , that means that God was blessing you more and you have less sins and he eased your way into heaven because Muslims believe once you are buried you face the angels that will either give you a heads up ahead of time whether you're going to hell or heaven and open in your grave a door to hell or a door to heaven . So according to Islamic Sharia , if you're a Shahid , then you definitely want them to start experiencing heaven as soon as possible by burying them . So that's why we think that they have been already buried and that's why we think these boxes might be empty weighted with something else just Yeah. Yeah, my sister My sister was a full scale Muslim, right? Lifelong . And her mom knew that, you know, I was an operational Muslim as a way to which I'm sorry. There's just places where if you don't go to mosque, they're going to call your ass out immediately. So and he called me. It was like your sister's past. You know, she had kidney problems. She was on dialysis for years and years and years and years. And he goes, I'm so sorry. She went friends. This is really well, I had been arranging a trip to Hodge, a medical trip on Hodge for her . And you know, and I was like, Hey, I'll go on Hodge with you . And you know, she was was she a little she was not much older than me, but older than me and had been mobility problems. And they have these trips where a medical company will fly you to Mecca , right? Mecca International Airport and they have these shuttles and everything out there depending on how much money you want. You know, I was like, I'll walk you around the Kaba, right ? And help you throw stones . But when she passed, my Mom was like, You're too late, bro . You goes done , done in the ground . I think it was within, I think she was buried within six hours. So technically, you would have landed in Jedah not Mecca, Mecca, Jed doesn't have an airport yet Okay , all right , but you get by drift is that you are buried quickly. The limit if I'm not mistaken is twenty four hours . And it's not just your spiritual, well, this is a few years ago, but it's not just the spiritual reasoning. You have to understand that all of this was written in Western Saudi Arabia in the summer one thousand four hundred some odd years ago . So there is a there is a, how can I put it a real reason to get you buried immediately . Right? Also they had things out there we didn't have to worry with Jackals was the thing, you know, I mean Saudi Arabia's not lions for Christ's sake and so they wanted to bury you, bury you deep, bury you quickly. So what we're seeing in this funeral of Ali Khameni is without one hundred percent. It's he's been dead for one hundred twenty sex to one hundred twenty and eight days . So just find me now. Yeah, why just reading the rules right now from the Kuran ? So anyway , or getting the answer from the Quran are calling Quran. com They have no question what is the Iranian official statement on whether they buried his body ahead of time or not just curious . So right now there's a giant procession I take it into Haran and they are burying him. Did you say they were burying other people at the same time or symbolizing his grandmother ? So his grand mother uchtaba Alfameni's daughter who was killed in the strike , plus his daughter in law , which is Muchtaba Alfameni's wife who was killed in the strike . Widower here, I wouldn't be of sound mine if my wife were destroyed in a strike like that. I'd be letting the IRGC loose at levels you couldn't possibly imagine, but that's just me. So what else can you tell us about it? Can they get cremated? No . No , they will also be taking the body to Karbala in Iraq. So the procession will be for seven dollars. They're going to go to Carbola. Yes, that's already that's probably already happened secretly . That's probably already happened secretly. I've been to both . They are claiming that the body hasn't been buried. Let me attempt Definjutman and Mochid aliani alka ali Faminai So as soon as he was killed he was not buried , but according to the Iranian government , they froze him or something during this war for security purpose purposes and they planned to wow bury him on the ninth . And where's he going to be buried in Kul ? I think he was going No, I think he's going to be buried next to a hussain in the same area, not in the same mosque, but it won't be in the same mosque. I've been in that mosque . It's pretty tight in there. And you guys wouldn't believe it. You know what? I don't have the photos . I have photos from inside there and it is not it's silver , interesting . So there's two colors that you will absorb when you go inside the shrine of Hussein and the shrine of Khalif Ali. Two colors come out and you would think, oh it's, going to be gold everywhere. Pure silver everywhere and green , green, just, you know, which is the color of Islam, color Sh ia Islam as well. And that's all you see. And it's like going into Liberacci's palace of solid silver everything . So I just find this absolutely fascinating. I would like to know more details. We should do like a special No. He will be buried in Iran according to CNN . He's got to be buried in Kum , which is the holy city in Iran where all of the Mopahara . Marcade del Emarab Areba . One of the other imams was buried there. Where are the twelve eleven out of twelve EMs buried in Shia? Isn't it? I think it's all in Kuln . I think everything's in Kulm. Isn't that that's also where the Ayatollah Comania is buried . Yes, I think so