Mourners hold prayers over bodies of martyred Leader and his family members
Mourners hold prayers over bodies of martyred Leader and his family members
M.U.H
05/07/202623
Tehran: Crowds of mourners have performed funeral prayers over the bodies of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, who were assassinated in a terror attack earlier this year by the US-Israeli regimes.
Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani led the funeral prayers at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla on Sunday morning.
The prayers were conducted in three stages. The first was offered for the body of the martyred Leader. The second was for the bodies of the Leader’s daughter, Seyyedeh Boshra Khamenei; one of the martyred Leader’s sons-in-law, Mesbah al-Hoda Baqeri; and the martyred Leader’s daughter-in-law, Zahra Haddad Adel. The third was offered for the martyred Leader’s granddaughter, Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani, who was a toddler.
Three of the martyred leader’s sons—Mostafa, Masoud, and Maysam—stood in the front row of mourners offering prayers over the bodies of their father and other family members. It was their first public appearance since the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28.
The heads of the three branches of government, namely President Masoud Pezeshkian, Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, were also present in the front row, alongside other officials.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several members of his family were martyred in an airstrike on his office and residence in Tehran on the first day of the US-Israeli war.
Memorial services for the martyred Leader and his family were held in Tehran on Friday, attended by senior officials from dozens of countries. A farewell ceremony for the martyred Leader began on Saturday morning at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla and will continue until Sunday evening, July 5. The following day, Tehran will host the funeral procession for the martyred Leader and his family members.
Another funeral procession will be held in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday, July 7. Special farewell and funeral ceremonies for the martyred Leader will also be held on Wednesday, July 8, in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, before he is laid to rest at the shrine of Imam Reza (PBUH) in the holy city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on Thursday, July 9.
