Image: A crowd attends the start of the dayslong funeral ceremonies at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4, 2026.vAltaf Qadri/AP

Hadeel Al-Shalchi for NPR reports: “Four months after Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, the country is holding his funeral.

Iranian state media showed huge crowds at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla — a large prayer complex in Tehran — visiting the casket of Ayatollah’s Ali Khamenei, who was killed on Feb. 28 at the start of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. The caskets of four of his killed family members were also on display…”

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