Huge Crowds of Mourners Join a Funeral Procession for Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Officials stage delayed funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to project stability and power amid war, with millions expected to attend the multi-city procession.
- On Monday, huge crowds joined the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei through Tehran, with mourners waving red flags symbolizing revenge and yellow ones representing Hezbollah past Azadi Tower.
- Iranian officials delayed the ceremonies for Khamenei and four family members, killed during Israeli-U.S. strikes on Feb. 28, citing "the war conditions" and "the brutal U.S. invasion."
- Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended the ceremony on Friday, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf were seen praying near the caskets.
- Mourners chanted "Death to America" and "#KillTrump," while critics questioned the high costs of the ceremony for a leader whose forces killed more than 6,000 people during 2025 protests.
- Following the Tehran services, the procession moves to Qom before crossing into Iraq to visit Shia religious sites in Najaf and Karbala, concluding with burial in Mashhad on Thursday.
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Hundreds of thousands of mourners amassed in the Iranian capital, Tehran, today to commemorate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, who ruled his country for decades with an iron fist before he was killed in the war with the United States and Israel.
Tehran fired Ali Khamenei this Monday with a funeral procession that toured the streets of the capital for 12 hours accompanied by a crowd of faithful. A truck with the remains of the supreme leader and his relatives, killed by the United States and Israel on the first day of war, managed to break through with difficulty among a crowd eager to approach the maximum to touch the vehicle. The endless avenue of Azadi (Libertad), about five kilometer…
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