The burial took place at the holy site, which houses the tomb of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, after Khamenei’s coffin was carried through the streets of Mashhad, where thousands of mourners gathered for a final farewell.
Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in coordinated US-Israeli strikes, will be buried alongside the shrine of Imam Reza in his hometown of Mashhad on July 9 ....
New Zealand Police have repeatedly characterized the attack as an “isolated incident” limited to the affected mosque. ICONZ, along with the wider Muslim community, does not share this assessment ....