The farewell ceremony for Ayatollah Khamenei began with shouts of “Death to Israel!”

According to Iranian state television, a large-scale farewell ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began on Saturday, July 4. The event, which attracted thousands of people, is intended to show strength to the enemies of the Islamic Republic.

The crowd of mourners chants: “Death to America! Death to Israel!”

The coffin with Khamenei’s remains will be on display until Monday, when a funeral procession will pass through Tehran.

The coffin will move to the spiritual center of Qom on Tuesday, to cities holy to Shiite Muslims in neighboring Iraq on Wednesday, and on Thursday it will be transported for burial in Khamenei’s hometown of Mashhad, in northeastern Iran.

By Editor