— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Al-Sistani, the son of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani:

‘It would have been fitting for my father to perform the funeral prayers over the body of the martyred Leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei.

Unfortunately, the physical condition and health of my father makes it impossible for this to take place, but he surely would have done so.’

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, on the back of a motorcycle during today’s funeral procession in Tehran

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— 🇮🇷🇮🇶 NEW: All the Iraqi Shia religious authorities, from pro-Iran to anti-Iran, have called upon people to show a mass attendance for Imam Khamenei’s funeral in Najaf and Karbala

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Based on my sources, the most likely prayer leader for the funeral of Martyr Imam Khamenei in Karbala is 95-year old Ayatollah Murtadha Al-Qazwini

However, it has not yet been officially confirmed, and changes could still be made.

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We only tried telling you people about a million different times…

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: About 12 to 15 million people have attended Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral ceremony so far, making it the largest funeral in modern history – Financial Times

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Jamkaran Mosque, in the city of Qom, is already completely full of people, many hours before the start of the funeral prayers

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: About 1 million people have gathered in Qom so far

Population of the city is 1.5 million, and many of them had already come to Tehran to attend the funeral too.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: A video from the funeral in Tehran shows people chanting ‘Death to the Compromiser!’ when they saw President Masoud Pezeshkian

I debated whether to upload this or not, but I think it’s important for people to see how Iranians think about the current negotiations with America.

We may disagree with such slogans, especially at a sensitive time like this, but the emotions are raw and sincere.

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🇮🇷| 5 hours until the funeral ceremony starts in Qom and Jamkaran grand mosque is already PACKED with mourners.

Keep in mind, it’s 01:30 AM in Iran right now.

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— I can’t describe what is happening, I don’t know how to explain to people how truly insane this funeral is. It’s the awakening of an entire nation.

Public life is completely shut down in these cities. People travel from hundreds of kilometers just to visit the martyred Leader. They sleep on the hard streets, some even without food, in 30 degree weather.

People walk, sometimes 10-20 kilometers, with their children, elderly, sick, and even crippled or disabled, to visit the martyred Leader.

There isn’t a single street within the city that doesn’t have dozens or hundreds of mourners walking to the funeral site. There is no metro station without chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’, that isn’t completely congested.

Some of the people that are attending, didn’t even support the Islamic Republic before the war. Some of them never attended a political rally in their entire lives. What is happening is completely unprecedented in history.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC Navy struck a vessel that attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz via the Omani maritime route without Iran’s permission

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— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦/🇺🇸 NEW: Iran most likely struck the Qatari-owned LNG Tanker ‘AL REKAYYAT’

The tanker received multiple warnings, but decided to ignore them and instead called the U.S. Navy for assistance.

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