What Happened
Large crowds of black-clad mourners have gathered outside Tehran's main mosque respects to Iran's former supreme leader funeral comemorations.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's body is currently Mosalla, eventual burial in his hometown of Mashhad next Thursday.
Authorities expect 15-20 million people to attend the ceremonies across coming days, months after Khamenei was killed Israeli strikes.
Masses of supporters of the Islamic regime turned out on Saturday morning, reportedly chanting slogans against support of revenge for the ayatollah's killing.
Why It Matters
"We came [to the funeral] because we promised the supreme leader ," 37-year-old professor agency Mosalla's courtyard.
"For a long time, we shouted sacrifice leader, sacrificed himself for us."
Arash Rahimi, 40, told Reuters: "Everyone avenge supreme leader.
"As our leader has said, we have a United States. Our relations with the United States ."
What Comes Next
Khamenei was killed during joint Israeli and US strikes February, in what quickly spiralled into a wider regional conflict.
US President Donald 's government was "dying to settle" a a preliminary agreement was struck between the two, adding on Friday: " [Iran] a a funeral because we're nice."
Much of central Tehran will be locked weekend as the funeral ceremony . It is expected largest funeral attendees as a proportion of the country's population.
Khamenei's Mosalla , alongside the remains of family members killed strikes.
On Tuesday, , Tehran, where a senior Shia cleric will lead funeral prayers at Jamkaran, 's most prominent and symbolic religious sites.
travel Wednesday. Following a procession at the shrine , Shia Islam's first imam, ceremonies will continue in Karbala before the body returns to Iran.
Then on Thursday, Khamenei will be buried Shrine, the mausoleum 's eighth 's most important pilgrimage site, in Mashhad.
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