UPDATE: Three of Ayatollah Khamenei’s sons attend the funeral, but not Mojtaba, Iran’s new supreme leader | International
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Three children of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who was killed in a bombing on the first day of the US-Israel war against the Islamic Republic, prayed this Sunday next to his coffin and those of four other family members who lost their lives in the same attack, but Mojtaba, who succeeded his father as spiritual guide of Iran, has not appeared. The successor of the almighty Khamenei was injured in the same attack and has not been reported since. has seen in public. Speculation about his possible attendance at the funeral had increased in recent days, but the fear that Israel would take advantage of the ceremony to attack him has outweighed the family mourning. State television showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying behind coffins displayed in the spacious courtyard of Tehran’s Great Mosala of Imam Khomeini, a sprawling religious complex presided over by the mosque. The question of the day was whether Mojtaba Khamenei would appear in public. His face was disfigured in the attack that killed his father and his other relatives on February 28, a probable reason why no image has yet been made public. Iran’s new supreme leader also suffered a serious injury to one or both legs, people close to his inner circle told Reuters. The funeral was delayed until the United States and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire, four months after the attacks began. The war declared unilaterally by the United States and Israel, to which Tehran responded by launching missiles against Israel and American interests in the region, did not succeed, as Washington and Tel Aviv intended, in overthrowing the Ayatollah regime in Tehran, firmly supported by the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps. In a show of adherence to the regime and revolutionary fervor, as well as a demonstration of force abroad, the Islamic Republic has organized a week of massive funeral processions in tribute to Khamenei, which includes the transfer of his remains to the two sacred Shiite cities in neighboring Iraq, Najaf and Karbala. After Friday’s day, which consisted of a wake inside the Mosala so that senior Iranian leaders and foreign representatives could To pay tribute to him, Khamenei’s coffin was displayed outdoors on Saturday under a glass cover, along with those of his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter. This Sunday, tens of thousands of people, including soldiers, seminary students and ordinary citizens, flocked to the Mosala to pay their respects to Khamenei and his family, waving flags bearing promises of revenge against the United States and Israel. Other attendees prayed at the complex named after Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, whom Khamenei succeeded in 1989 and who also had a massive funeral, bordering on paroxysm. Khamenei’s farewell ceremony was extended this Sunday for more than an hour, until late into the night in Tehran, due to the high number of attendees, according to state media. A disappointed mourner declared that she had hoped to “see the new supreme leader” during the funeral ceremonies. “Until the last moment, before the prayer began, I did not fail to tell those around me that I hoped he would come himself.” [Mojtaba Jamenei]. That was our only wish,” the young woman told the semi-official Tasnim news agency in an interview. A ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, not without shocks, has theoretically put an end to the war after four months of hostilities, which caused regional instability and a severe blow to the world economy, as Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz. According to the ayatollah regime, the agreement with Washington will ultimately bring enormous economic benefits, allowing them to claim victory over the superpower.
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