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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top officials and brothers of the new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Their appearance signaled confidence in their safety as Iran pushes back on U.S. demands in negotiations to permanently end the war....
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top officials and brothers of the new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Their appearance signal...
Massive crowds gathered in Tehran to mourn Khamenei’s death, with chants calling for revenge against the US and Israel.
The dayslong funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in February by U.S.-Israeli strikes, has been marked by chants for revenge.
Radical political activist Calla Walsh, who has become one of the leading American voices propping the Iranian regime, attended the funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, touting hi...
Slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei funeral has put in abeyance peace talks with the US to find a resolution to the Middle East conflict. Iran is also seen as increasingly pushing b...
State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in the vast courtyard of Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, a sprawling religious complex, but not...
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the attack which killed his father at the outset of the US-Israel war with Iran.
Throughout the capital, the government is using Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral to project strength at a time of great uncertainty for Iran.
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...
State of the Union: A Financial Times poll found that 58 percent of registered U.S. voters do not consider the Iran War to have been worth the cost.
The images emerging from Tehran are striking. Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black have gathered at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla for the funeral and lying in state of Ayatollah...
The multi-day ceremonies are scheduled to run through Thursday, when the late supreme leader is to be buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad
Crowds of hundreds of thousands chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," as they called for revenge over the Feb. 28 attack.
Iran's reaction followed a remark made by Trump, who claimed that the US has the capabilities to take out Iran's surviving top leadership "all in one shot" as they gathered to mourn late Ay...
The funeral was in part a show of unity and defiance as Iran demands a measure of control over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global energy that it shut down during the war.
Talks over reaching a permanent end to the war appear to be on hold until the end of the funeral.
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