Two-day farewell ceremony for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei begins in Tehran, drawing huge crowds to Imam Khomeini's Mosalla. Funeral procession Monday, burial Thursday in Mashhad with national mourning declared.
A two-day farewell ceremony for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei began Saturday morning at Imam Khomeini's Mosalla prayer hall in Tehran, drawing large crowds. Mourning events will continue through the week with a funeral procession Monday in Tehran, a ceremony in Qom on Tuesday, transfer to Iraq's Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday, and burial in Mashhad on Thursday, which the government has declared a day of national mourning.
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