Huge crowds fill Tehran streets for Khamenei's funeral procession
Huge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the
Huge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Israel. Footage from Iranian state TV showed many tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch Khamenei's flag-draped coffin being transported by a lorry along a 10km (6-mile) route that passed through the capital's landmark Enghelab Square.
The procession took place after his body lay in state for two days at Tehran's Grand Mosalla mosque. Three of Khamenei's sons prayed beside his
coffin there on Sunday. But Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as supreme leader, did not make an appearance. He has not been seen in
public since reporting being seriously wounded in the same Israeli air strike in Tehran on 28 February that killed his father and his wife.
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