Crowds swelled through Tehran as mourners dressed in black carried flags proclaiming: ‘We will rise’
A crowd of millions assembled on Monday for the funeral procession of Iran’s assassinated supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The scale and depth of the march, however engineered, represents an extraordinary turnaround for a country that only seven months ago was gripped by street protests at which thousands of people were killed by government security forces. Many will say the assembly was a monument to a misconceived war launched on Iran by Donald Trump in February.
The throng moved from east to west, through Tehran from Revolution Square to Azadi Square, after the two-day funeral of the supreme leader and members of his family in the Grand Masalla mosque in Tehran. The mourners wore black clothing and carried flags that bore the slogan “We will rise”; others held aloft the flag of Iran and pictures of Khamenei.
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