France, July 5 -- State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in ⁠the vast courtyard of Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, a sprawling religious complex.

Masoud Khamenei was seen crying and wiping his tears with a keffiyeh - ​the chequered scarf that is a symbol in Iran of militant revolutionary ideals and ​solidarity with Palestinians - as an imam recited funeral prayers.

In a show of public devotion to the theocratic state and revolutionary zeal, the Islamic Republic is ‌staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei, including taking his remains to Shi'ite religious sites ⁠in neighbouring Iraq.

After a day lying in state indoors for senior Iranian ...