May 22, 2024 4:20 PM

Iran: Supreme Leader leads prayers at Raisi funeral, memorial ceremony held in Delhi

Iran's Supreme Leader led prayers in Tehran on Wednesday at the funeral of the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials in Sunday's crash near the Azerbaijan border. State TV showed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading prayers as tens of thousands of mourners thronged streets at the funeral in Tehran, which will move to the cleric's eastern home city of Mashhad for burial on Thursday. A resident in Tehran said...