Huge crowds fill Tehran streets for Khamenei's funeral procession

Huge crowds fill Tehran streets for Khamenei's funeral processionTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, 'The spectacle Iran wants the world to see': Lyse Doucet in TehranByDavid GrittenPublished1 minute agoHuge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Israel.Footage from Iranian state TV showed many tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch Khamenei's flag-draped coffin being transported by a lorry along a 10km (6-mile) route that passed through the capital's landmark Enghelab Square.The procession took place after his body lay in state for two days at Tehran's Grand Mosalla mosque.Three of Khamenei's sons prayed beside his coffin there on Sunday. But Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as supreme leader, did not make an appearance.He has not been seen in public since reporting being seriously wounded in the same Israeli air strike in Tehran on 28 February that killed his father and his wife.Iran's supreme leader absent as senior officials attend ayatollah's funeralPublished18 hours agoHow Iran's new regime is very different to what came beforePublished1 day agoKhamenei's funeral procession wended its way slowly through central Tehran, from Imam Hossein Square in the east to Azadi Square in the west, on the last of three days of public mourning in the capital.State media reported that millions of mourners filled the main boulevards connecting the squares and crowding around the black lorry that carried the coffin of the late supreme leader and four family members.Many people were waving Iranian flags and red banners symbolising vengeance.There were also placards saying "We must rise" and others calling for the death of US President Donald Trump, who along with Israel's Prime Minist...