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Iran to bury slain Supreme Leader in culmination of mass funeral
Mourners are expected to reach 15 million as Iran ends a week of processions and buries its slain Supreme Leader at the Shrine of Imam Reza.
- Iran is holding the burial of its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday evening at the Shrine of Imam Reza in his hometown of Mashhad, concluding a massive, weeklong state funeral.
- The multi-day mourning procession drew millions of participants across five major cities in both Iran and Iraq, serving as a highly choreographed effort by the clerical establishment to project authority and national continuity.
- The final rituals coincide with a fresh surge of military conflict in the Middle East, as the United States launched new retaliatory airstrikes on Iran following recent attacks on shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Khamenei's newly appointed successor and son, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, remained entirely hidden from public view during the ceremonies, with officials previously noting he was disfigured and injured in the February airstrikes that killed his father.
- Alongside the former Supreme Leader, authorities are burying several family members who died in the same initial strike, including his daughter, son-in-law, and an infant granddaughter, amid intense public calls for revenge from hardline mourners.
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