Author: Patrick Wintour in Tehran
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Crowds gather as six-day funeral for former Iranian supreme leader begins
Up to 30 million people expected to attend delayed events for Ali Khamenei, killed at start of war with US and IsraelHuge crowds have gathered at the funeral of the former Iranian supreme leader after the gates of the sprawling Grand Mosalla mosque in …
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Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran
Country’s leadership vows to never surrender as memorial on grand scale aims to relay message of resistance to worldIn the small hours of Friday the police roadblocks, stalls, posters and army vans were starting to appear across Tehran, as millions of …