{"id":59199,"date":"2026-04-09T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/59199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:39:10","slug":"mourners-gather-for-khamenei-memorial-service-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/59199\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourners gather for Khamenei memorial service in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mourners gathered in Tehran on Thursday for memorial services for the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on February 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">State television broadcast footage from the city centre of the metropolis, where crowds were mourning the former supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ceremonies coincided with the end of the 40-day mourning period, which is traditional in Shia Islam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The organizers deliberately chose 9:40 am (0610 GMT) for the processions in Tehran to begin, marking the time Israel bombed Khamenei\u2019s official residence in the Iranian capital on the opening day of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A prayer service for Khamenei is planned for Friday in Tehran. It is still unclear who will lead it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not appeared in public since his election as supreme leader in early March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is also speculation about his state of health, with US defence chief Pete Hegseth again claiming on Wednesday that the new leader is &#8220;disfigured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also remains unclear when Khamenei will be buried in his north-eastern hometown of Mashhad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mourners gathered in Tehran on Thursday for memorial services for the late ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,34,21662,1796,17405,2289,22842,69],"class_list":["post-59199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-iran","tag-iranian-air-force","tag-iranian-supreme-leader","tag-memorial-service","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-prayer-service","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116374088128833162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199","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=59199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}