The Reuters caption on a photograph taken from the scene captured in the video below reads: “A person enters a refrigerated truck carrying the coffin of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes, as people attend Khamenei’s funeral procession, in Karbala, Iraq, July 9, 2026.” Video of the incident can also be seen in this Times of India story.
Watch this.
This is the culture your Western leaders are mass importing into the West. Literal death cultism and zombies.
Yes, this is Khamenei's corpse crowdsurfing out of a fridge. pic.twitter.com/Ki9J5WluvF
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) July 9, 2026
It’s not clear what accounts for the red tint, but it’s the perfect touch. It looks like a lost scene from Roger Corman’s classic Masque of the Red Death.
I asked Grok if the video of the late Supreme Leader’s casket in the refrigerator truck is real. Grok dredged up this response from cold storage:
Yes, the video is real.
iranintl.com
It shows footage from the funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (killed in a US-Israeli strike in February 2026). His body was transported in a refrigerated truck with Finnish K-Group (Kesko) branding during events in Karbala, Iraq, around July 9, 2026.
helsinkitimes.fi
Key details: Reuters video (widely shared and reported by outlets like Iran International, Yle News, AP, and Helsinki Times) captured the scene: a crowd surrounding the truck, vapor/steam from the cold compartment as the flag-draped coffin was unloaded and carried.
iranintl.com
The truck has orange-and-white K-Group logos (from Finland’s major retail chain Kesko). Kesko confirmed it’s investigating how one of their branded refrigerated vehicles (likely sold second-hand via a logistics partner) ended up there, calling it “extremely unfortunate.” They noted branding should have been removed.
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This happened during multi-day funeral processions involving Iran and Iraq (Najaf/Karbala), before burial in Mashhad. Other trucks carried the coffin in Iran proper.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Note that many other viral Khamenei funeral videos are AI-generated or old footage misattributed — but this specific refrigerated truck clip from Karbala is verified by mainstream reporting and not fake.
france24.com
The irony of the Finnish grocery truck (which likely once carried food, including pork products) has been widely noted online.
Kesko is not happy about the free advertising:
According to Ilta-Sanomat, the truck in question was put up for sale in an Iraqi Facebook group in June. “We will remind our transport operators that it is part of their obligations to remove stickers before the vehicle is resold,” parent company Kesko writes to Yle.
Is it wrong to laugh?
— Dick Thorne (@DickThorne1776) July 9, 2026
