Tehran: On the fourth day of the lengthy burial services for the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, thousands of people flocked to the streets of the Iranian holy city of Qom on Tuesday. The Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, a sacred city that is home to the most important schools and shrines in Shia Islam, is where the ashes of Khamenei, who was slain in late February on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, lie in state.
State media aired aerial images of Qom’s streets, which are home to roughly 1.5 million people, crowded with mourners. The 93-year-old ayatollah and prominent conservative Shia leader in the Islamic republic, Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, conducted a prayer service inside the mosque.
“Death to America,” a rallying cry commonly heard at official meetings in Iran, was screamed in unison by the enormous crowd at the funeral. Additional television video showed mourners, including clergy dressed in turbans, paying their respects at the coffins of Khamenei and four of his family, including a granddaughter who was allegedly only 14 months old.
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