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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft

Huge crowds line streets of Tehran for Khamenei funeral procession as mourners chant for revenge

Hundreds of thousands of mourners joined a funeral procession through Tehran on Monday for supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as some chanted for revenge against the West for his assassination.

His flag-draped coffin, and those of his family, also killed on 28 February in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the US, were carried on board a truck through the streets of the capital, as daily life ground to a halt to make way for large crowds of mourners.

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