Middle East and Africa
Aerial footage broadcast by state television showed the streets of Qom -- home to about 1.5 million people -- packed with mourners.
This handout satellite image released by Vantor shows large crowds of mourners congregating around Azadi Tower in Azadi Square in Tehran on July 6, 2026, during the funeral procession for Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei. ( AFP/Satellite image ©2026 Vantor)
Thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday in the Iranian holy city of Qom during a fourth day of marathon funeral proceedings for 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.
