Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday in the Iranian holy city of Qom during a fourth day of funeral proceedings for the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The remains of Khamenei, who was killed in late February on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, are lying in state at the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, a holy city that houses Shia Islam's most influential seminaries and shrines.
Aerial footage broadcast by state television showed the streets of Qom -- home to about 1.5 million people -- packed with mourners.
A prayer service was held inside the mosque by Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, a 93-year-old ayatollah and influential Shia figure in the Islamic Republic.
The massive crowd at the service chanted in unison, "death to America", a rallying cry frequently heard at official gatherings in Iran.
