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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top officials and brothers of the country's new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling a new confidence in their safety as calls grew for the killing of U.S. President Donald Trump. Their...
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29 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
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CBS News · Center-left · News report
WGN-TV (Nexstar, Chicago) · Center · News report
The Jerusalem Post · Center-right · Analysis
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top officials and brothers of the country's new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
Iran is burying its former leader in a week-long ceremony. Will it now use the boost to try to claw back its influence across the Middle East?
The dayslong funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in February by U.S.-Israeli strikes, has been marked by chants for revenge.
Thousands gathered to mourn Khamenei as Trump boasts ‘one shot’ could take all the regime’s leaders ‘out’
Former Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike in the opening phase of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's war against the Middle East country
On the second day of public mourning for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in February, there was still no sign of his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei.
Mourners are filling the streets of Tehran as part of a days-long memorial for Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in the first strikes of the war. NBC’s Rich...
Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba is conspicuously absent from his father's funeral on Sunday, amid speculation about his condition.
Mojtaba Khamenei does not join other top leaders and sons alongside coffin of slain supreme leader
Iranian poet leads chants of 'Death to Israel' and 'Death to America,' threatens Trump's life in address to crowd, as mourners declare fealty to new leader and express desire for revenge
Iranian state TV showed Khamenei's sons Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud praying at the funeral. Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was not seen.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Pawan Khera called PM Modi ‘compromised’ and his government ‘incapable’ to condemn ‘reckless insinuations of violence by their masters in the United States.’
New supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei still absent from public view as his three brothers stand beside father’s coffin Beside the coffin of the assassinated former Iranian supreme leader Ali...
Iran’s new supreme leader shares his late father’s “positive” view of relations with China, Tehran’s ambassador told a security forum in Beijing. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli also suggested that...
Three sons of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who has succeeded him as Ir...
Iranian leaders gathered Sunday for a second day of funeral ceremonies for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the absence of his son and designated successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, d...
Trump said in January that he had given “very firm instructions” to “wipe them off the face of this Earth” if Iran ever tried to assassinate him.
Slain Ayatollah’s son attends funeral as current Ayatollah stays away Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family memb...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the ceremony on Sunday, accompanied by Iranian allies and members of the team currently negotiating with the US after an initial ceasefire in th...
There has still been no public sighting or image released of Mojtaba, said to have been injured in the attack that killed his father and the other family members on Feb. 28.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral on Saturday for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case...
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