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• Govt to hold funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq
• Hotels offer discounts, buses and trains diverted for mourners
DUBAI: Iran is preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion, and proof that its revolutionary fervor still burns strong.
The former supreme leader was killed by US and Israeli strikes in their first attack of the war, and the funeral rites will begin over the weekend in Tehran, with mass processions planned next week in Qom and Mashhad and ceremonies in Iraq.
