Tehran, July 5 -- Funeral prayers were held on Sunday for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as thousands of mourners, senior officials and military commanders gathered in Tehran on the second day of ceremonies following his death in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike earlier this year.
Khamenei, who led Iran from 1989 until his death at the age of 86, was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israel war against Iran on February 28.
The prayers at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla were led by senior Shia cleric Ja'far Sobhani, a 97-year-old scholar based in the holy city of Qom, as senior officials, military commanders and members of the late leader's family gathered for the ceremony.
Notably absent from the ceremony was Mojta...