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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James C. Reynolds

Trump strikes Iran railway bridges on route to Khamenei’s funeral as ceasefire unravels

Iran accused the US on Thursday of striking railway bridges en route to the holy city where the slain supreme leader was buried as a fragile truce between the two countries unravelled.

Huge crowds gathered as the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was buried at a ⁠shrine in Mashhad, northeast Iran, the culmination of a week of mass funeral processions and rallies. Khamenei was killed in a US/Israeli airstrike on the first day of the war on 28 February.

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