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5 min readThe Iranian government is preparing for the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an explosion, with official ceremonies beginning tomorrow. NPR's Hadil Al-Shah reports that a video distributed by Iranian state media showed a military band and a delegation of world religious leaders paying respects at Khamenei's coffin. On Saturday, memorial ceremonies and processions will take place in Tehran and the city of Qom, after which the remains will be taken to Shia holy sites in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq. The Ayatollah will be buried next Thursday in his birthplace of Mashhad. Iranian authorities are expected to shut down streets and airspace. The last massive funeral of this kind in Iran was for Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the 1979 Islamic revolution; held in 1989, that funeral drew about 10 million mourners. The ceremonies are meant to be a show of force by the Iranian regime.
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- 1 (00:21) **Iran Prepares for Supreme Leader's Funeral** - Official ceremonies begin tomorrow as a show of force by the regime, with processions in Tehran, Qom, and holy sites in Iraq, and burial next Thursday in Mashhad.
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