{"id":29734,"date":"2026-03-21T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/29734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:21:07","slug":"iranians-hold-eid-ul-fitr-prayers-in-tehrans-grand-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/29734\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians hold Eid ul-Fitr prayers in Tehran&#8217;s grand mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-2026-03-21T193630.848.jpg\" alt=\"\" is_main_img=\"1\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image sp-no-webp\"\/>   Iranian Shias take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosalla mosque in Tehran. \u2014 AFP pic    <\/p>\n<p>Dubai: Thousands of Iranian worshippers on Saturday converged on Tehran\u2019s grand mosque for Eid ul-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press footage showed worshippers lining up at Imam Khomeini Mosalla, and in its vast courtyard for the prayers, as Israel and the United States continued launching massive airstrikes against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Masoud Alibenam, 50, said it\u2019s \u201creally a painful feeling\u201d that the Eid prayers are being offered without Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the first days of the war. \u201cThe leader (Khamenei) is no longer here, and we are offering the prayers in his absence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=siasat.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"google-news-btn\" style=\"display:inline-block;transition:transform .2s ease,box-shadow .2s ease;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0;font-size:0;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" style=\"display:block;margin:0;padding:0;height:70px;width:auto;\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/preferred_publisher.webp.webp\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/preferred_publisher.webp.webp\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" style=\"display:block;margin:0;padding:0;height:70px;width:auto;\" decoding=\"async\"\/> <\/a>    <a href=\"https:\/\/zomato.onelink.me\/xqzv\/xm7r1qyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Subhan Haleem\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Subhan-Haleem-01.webp.webp\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Subhan-Haleem-01.webp.webp\" alt=\"Subhan Haleem\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;\"\/> <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Worshippers also held funeral services for Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini, spokesperson for the Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Friday. The funeral procession of Amir Hossein Bidi, a pro-government cultural activist, was also held after Eid prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian Shias take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13756,11433,14023,34,2119,497,6217,14024,69,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-29734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-eid","9":"tag-eid-al-fitr","10":"tag-eid-ul-fitr","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-attack","13":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","14":"tag-ramadan","15":"tag-ramzan","16":"tag-tehran","17":"tag-us-israel-iran-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116267613101617793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}