Iran’s funeral procession for slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began Monday through Tehran, on the third day of a state funeral that authorities hope will avoid the deadly crush that marred Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 funeral, which drew an estimated 10 million mourners. Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, along with those of family members killed on February 28 in the airstrike that started the US-Israel war, was carried on a decorated truck through crowds of black-clad mourners over a 12-hour route to Mehrabad International Airport.
Hundreds of thousands packed Tehran’s squares carrying signs threatening Trump and Netanyahu, including a hanged effigy of Trump. New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said to have been wounded in the strikes, has still not appeared publicly, though former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a rare public appearance.
The procession continues to Qom on Tuesday, then to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Wednesday, before burial in Mashhad on Thursday. Washington is meanwhile pressing ahead with negotiations aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and reaching a permanent end to the war, though talks appear on hold until after the burial.
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