Aref: The Nation's Demand for Punishing Perpetrators Was Raised

First Vice President Masoud Pezeshkian responded at the funeral ceremony of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to public demands for punishing those responsible for this incident. He stated that the people's request for disciplining these individuals is a rational demand consistent with international law. The First Vice President also emphasized that the Islamic Republic system has the right to self-defense and this punishment will be achieved with strategic rationality. These responses took place during ceremonies that domestic media described as "epic."

• The First Vice President characterized the public's demand for punishing those responsible as a "legitimate request" that aligns with "international principles of self-defense."
• According to the First Vice President's account, these demands were raised during the "epic funeral ceremony."
• The First Vice President framed his position in a manner that linked punishment to "strategic rationality," rather than presenting it as an immediate or defined action.
• Covering media outlets (ISNA, IRNA, Akharin Khabar, IRIB, Mizan, Hamshahri, and Jam-e Jam) all reported the same quotation from the First Vice President.
• At least two categories of response are evident in the coverage: some newspapers and news agencies emphasized the phrase "strategic rationality," while others emphasized "legitimate demand" and "consistent with international principles."
• All seven sources used non-neutral language such as "terrorist" and "epic funeral ceremony," words that carry certain value judgments within them.. Coverage difference: All covering media outlets presented an identical account of the First Vice President's quotation, with no meaningful difference in different emphases or reporting angles. Only structural differences in the ordering of quotations and the frequency of their repetition across different texts are observed.