In Tehran it is the second day of the farewell ceremony in memory of former Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and four members of his family, all killed in an Israeli-American attack on February 28. Thousands of people from different cities of Iran participate in public prayers.
Prayers were held at the Mosalla Grand Mosque, where the bodies have been placed in glass coffins since Saturday morning, when the two-day farewell ceremony began. The prayers were divided into three parts: the first for the late leader, the second for his daughter Boshra, his son-in-law Mesbaholhoda Bagheri (husband of Hoda, another daughter of Khamenei) and Zahra Hadad Adel, wife of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. The third part was dedicated to Khamenei’s granddaughter, Zahra Mohammadi Golpaygani. The funeral ceremony for the former leader will continue in Qom on Tuesday and in the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday. He will be buried in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in Tehran, 7 million and 141 thousand trips were recorded in the metro network, according to what Tasnim News writes in its X account in Persian. The farewell ceremony for Ali Khamenei in the Imam Khomeini mosque will continue until 8pm this evening (5.30pm in Italy) and pilgrims “can use the subway to participate”.
The images released by the Tasnim agency, linked to the Pasdaran, show some participants at the funeral waving banners and chanting slogans inciting “kill Trump” and “kill Bibi”, calling for revenge for Khamenei’s death. The phrases on the banners are written in English, not Persian.