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During the state funeral prayers for his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and four family members, Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, chose to remain out of the public eye. Citing security threats following an attack, his absence has sparked considerable speculation. As his brothers and ke...
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Philadelphia Inquirer · Center-left · News report
The Times of India · Center · News report
Daily Sabah (Turkey) · Right · News report
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During the state funeral prayers for his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and four family members, Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, chose to remain out of the public eye. Citing...
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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...
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.
The dayslong funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in February by U.S.-Israeli strikes, has been marked by chants for revenge.
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...
Three sons of killed ayatollah were seen beside coffin during ceremonies drawing huge crowds in Tehran Three sons of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffi...
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.
State television showed three of Ali Khamenei's sons, Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei, standing behind their father's coffin during funeral prayers at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosal...
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...
The funeral began on Saturday in Tehran with chants of "death to America, death to Israel," and his body is expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi'ite centers of Iran...
Khamenei's coffin was displayed outdoors on Saturday under glass, along with those of his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter.
Thousands gathered to mourn Khamenei, with several waving regime’s flag and chanting ‘Death to America’
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,...
More than 10 million people are expected to take part in ceremonies in Tehran.
DONALD Trump has warned that a "one shot" strike could take out Iranian chiefs gathered at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral. The US president's comments come amid reports that the new Supre...
Tehran metro records seven million trips for Khamenei funeral Tehran’s metro system recorded more than 7 million passenger trips between Saturday evening and Sunday morning as large crowds...
Khamenei's funeral is another reminder of the change Iran has seen, but what does its new leadership want?
Comment represents the first, direct call for Trump’s death by an emcee at the funeral
A performer at the funeral for Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the death of US President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people on Sunda...
Prayers are to be said over the casket of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the second day of marathon funeral ceremonies that have already drawn huge crowds to pay their final re...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Now: Wording Gap is 89/99 and story health is stable · 39 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.