Millions join funeral procession for Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei

According to The Guardian World, millions gathered in Tehran on Monday for the funeral procession of Iran's assassinated supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Mourners dressed in black carried flags bearing the slogan 'we will rise,' and the crowd swelled as it moved through the city. The Guardian notes the scale of the march, however engineered, marks a striking reversal for a country that just seven months ago was gripped by street protests in which thousands were killed by government security forces. Some, the paper says, will view the assembly as a monument to what they see as a misconceived war launched on Iran by Donald Trump in February.

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