On Sunday, three sons of dead Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his casket alongside four other family members. However, Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader, did not attend. On February 28, the US and Israel launched an airstrike on Iran, killing their father and several other family members.
The fight, which raged for several weeks before the sides agreed a shaky ceasefire, has resulted in death and destruction throughout the region, while Iran’s theocratic regime, backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains in power.
The Islamic Republic is holding a week-long funeral procession for Khamenei, including transporting his remains to Shi’ite religious sites in neighboring Iraq, as a display of public commitment to the state and revolutionary spirit. Khamenei’s coffin, along with those of his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and 14-month-old granddaughter, was shown outdoors under glass on Saturday, following a day of laying in state indoors for senior Iranian leaders and international diplomats to attend.
On Sunday, tens of thousands more mourners, including soldiers, seminary students, and ordinary men and women, entered the Mosalla to pay their respects to Khamenei and his family, brandishing flags bearing pledges of vengeance against America and Israel. Others prayed in unison at the building named for Iran’s first supreme leader, Khomeini, whom Khamenei succeeded in 1989.
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