Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads prayers as mourners throw flowers and some chant ‘death to Israel’
A funeral procession for the assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been held in the Iranian capital of Tehran amid fears that the fallout from his killing, blamed on Israel, risks escalating into a regional war.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the prayers over the coffins of Haniyeh and his bodyguard, draped in traditional black and white Palestinian scarves, at the ceremony at the University of Tehran on Thursday.
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