Tomorrow, the six-day funeral ceremony for the people of Iran begins for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, who was killed by Israeli and American fire in his country on the first day of the war, February 28. A separate ceremony for foreign leaders is being held today.
Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, who is the chief organizer of the funeral, described the ceremony, which begins on Saturday in Tehran and will end with Khamenei’s burial on Thursday in Mashhad, as “the most important event of this century” and as the event with the largest attendance since the 1979 revolution.
The ceremony had not been held until now because of fears of attacks, but since mid-June, the United States and Iran have been in a 60-day ceasefire.
His body will lie in public, together with the bodies of his relatives who were also killed, while millions of Iranians are expected to attend — but not his son and Iran’s current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
He was seriously injured in the same US-Israeli strike on a government residence in Tehran, but the extent of his injuries remains unknown. So far, he has issued only written statements, including one in which he distanced himself from ceasefire negotiations but approved their continuation. At the same time, Israel is threatening to kill him.
Source: Guardian
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