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Islamic Republic supporters threw rocks and projectiles at an image of President Trump hanging from an overpass.
They weren’t hurting Trump. They were hitting their own… https://t.co/83OPAxcgSW pic.twitter.com/r9KfYwEs47
Millions gather in Tehran for historic funeral procession of martyred Leader
[HodhodYemenNews] Mourners have poured onto the streets of the Iranian capital as the funeral procession for the martyred Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution
...Iran's doddering head theocrat...
, Ayatollah Seyyid Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
, gets underway, in what officials have described as the largest public gathering in the country’s modern history.
The procession began at 6:00 AM local time (0230 GMT) on Monday from Tehran’s Grand Mosalla religious complex, where the body had lain in state for two days.
Organizers expect the procession to last 10 to 12 hours, winding along a 10-kilometer route through Damavand Street, Imam Hussein Square, Enqelab Street, Enqelab Square, Azadi Street, Azadi Square, and Shahid Lashgari Highway, located near the Mehrabad airport.
On Sunday, Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani led funeral prayers for the martyred Leader, his son-in-law Dr. Mesbah-ul-Hoda Bagheri-Kani, his daughter Zahra Haddad-Adel, his granddaughter Zahra Mohammadi-Golpayegani (14 months old), and Seyyedeh Bushra Hosseini-Khamenei.
Delegations from scores of countries, including heads of state, prime ministers, and bigwigs from Russia, China, India, Pakistain, Iraq, Tajikistan,
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..., and dozens of other nations, arrived in Tehran to pay their respects on Friday.
The funeral ceremonies will continue with similar events in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday, followed by processions at the shrines of Imam Ali (AS) in Najaf and Imam Hussein (AS) and Hazrat Abbas (AS) in Karbala on Wednesday.
The burial will take place on Thursday, July 9, at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, in accordance with the martyred Leader’s will.
A sea of mourners dressed in black flooded into Iran’s capital Monday for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with throngs of people calling for the death of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, and those of members of his family killed in a February 28 airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck decorated to resemble the ornamental grating that surrounds the shrine of an imam. The massive turnout, encouraged by Iran’s theocracy as a sign of strength, came as it negotiates with the US over a permanent end to the war that killed the 86-year-old cleric who ruled Iran for decades.
Helicopter images aired on Iranian state television showed a huge crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi Square for miles down a multilane street of the same name.
The crowd appeared to be larger than the one that turned out for the 2020 procession for the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Gen. Qassem Solemani, which drew over 1 million people.
Authorities offered no immediate crowd count as the truck, covered in flower petals, crept down the street.
“Today that we are here for the funeral for our leader, it’s a very tough day,” mourner Fatima Hassan said. “We are not here to say goodbye to him, we are here for revenge. And we will take revenge.”
An effigy of Trump being hanged was seen along the funeral procession’s route.
Mourners reached out to touch the truck, and some threw scarves and other items for attendants to brush against the coffin, a common practice in Iran seen as a blessing. Attendants, some on the ladders of firetrucks, sprayed misted water across the crowds to cool them in the heat.
Authorities appeared concerned about the dangers of having a large crowd alongside the procession, with officials on loudspeakers urging the public to walk slowly, not to push and to stay to the edges of the street.
Authorities are hoping to avoid a repeat of the chaos that marred the 1989 funeral of Khamenei’s predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which drew an estimated 10 million people, according to state news agency IRNA.
Crowd surges during Khomeini’s farewell killed more than 10 people and injured over 10,000.
It is unclear what level of access and proximity the public will eventually have during Monday’s procession, but authorities are mindful that in 1989 they were forced to use a helicopter to transport Khomeini for burial after mourners stormed his vehicle, causing his burial shroud to tear and his body to fall to the ground.