Iran begins dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in war
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for over three decades who was killed in an airstrike, is being honored in elaborate state funeral ceremonies expected to draw between 15 and 20 million mourners to Tehran's central public and religious venues. Foreign dignitaries and senior Iranian officials are attending the multi-day event, which will conclude with Khamenei's burial in Mashhad, his birthplace.
Progressive: Progressive-leaning outlets use 'assassinated' and frame the funeral as Iran's geopolitical response to US-Israeli military intervention.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral on Saturday for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and calling for revenge against Israel and the United States.
The funeral for Khamenei, who ruled Iran for decades before he was killed at age 86 in a Feb.
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