Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei, 86, is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.

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Hundreds of senior Iranian and foreign officials paid tribute on Friday to the assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

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