The funeral procession of Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continued to draw massive crowds as it made its way through the holy cities of Iraq, home to some of the Shia faith's most sacred shrines. The six-day funeral ceremony will conclude on Thursday when Khamenei's body is returned to Iran for burial in his hometown of Mashhad.
Huge crowds thronged the streets of Najaf and packed the courtyards of its majestic shrine as they mourned late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his funeral procession in Iraq Wednesday.
