Crowds gather as six-day funeral for former Iranian supreme leader begins

Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for thirty-seven years, was killed in an airstrike in February, marking the start of war with the United States and Israel. According to The Guardian, his six-day funeral has begun in Tehran, with up to thirty million mourners expected to gather at the Grand Mosalla mosque. Thousands of people camped overnight to attend.

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