Ayatollah Khamenei’s 6-day funeral ceremony has become a rallying point for the regime supporters and its useful idiots from the West.
Tehran flew in hundreds of foreign social media influencers to participate in the regime’s orchestrated display of anti-Western hate. The Jerusalem Post, citing Iranian state media, reported “that around 400 foreign bloggers and influencers were brought in” by the regime to witness Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral.
Leading the pack were Jackson Hinkle and Max Blumenthal. Hinkle, who built his fan base by supporting Putin and bashing Israel, took the stage at a gathering in Tehran to lead the chants of “Down with the USA.” Standing on the stage, he waved a reg flag, symbol of jihad and vengeance in Shia Islam.
Hinkle, not new to such unsavory company, attended the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last year. In March 2025, he addressed a Houthi rally in Yemen, where his speech in English was greeted with Arabic chants of “Death to America.”
Not to be outdone, self-styled journalist Blumenthal was literally seen drumming for the regime, flanked by the flags of the Iranian regime and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah.
Seeing the frenzied anti-America crowd, Blumenthal was overcome by the emotion. Tehran’s Engelhab Square, where Hinkel called for “Death” to America and Israel, he declared, was “rocking tonight.”
Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart was the first to see what Blumenthal was really about. “You are a despicable human being,” Breitbart said during a heated confrontation in 2010. “You have been programmed by some ungodly creature to be this character of hatred (…). ”
The regime fanboys from the U.S. were joined by the former British-Pakistani fashion influencer Bushra Shaikh. Hijab-clad Shaikh told her followers about the “exhilarating experience” of witnessing the regime-orchestrated show.
“A UK television personality went on two state-sponsored tours of Iran this spring where she met senior officials and was ‘active’ in spreading the regime’s message, according to an investigation by a Iranian factchecking organisation,” The Guardian reported in May. “Bushra Shaikh, from Surrey, owned a luxury clothing brand and finished ninth on series 13 of The Apprentice in 2017, where she described herself as ‘inspired by Coco Chanel.'”
Iran, along with Russia, China, Qatar, and Turkey, is waging a disinformation and demoralization campaign against the American public. Among anti-American influencers, ranging from radical left to woke right, these regimes find some of their most useful idiots.
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