Huge crowds fill Tehran streets for Khamenei's funeral procession

This video can not be played 'The spectacle Iran wants the world to see': Lyse Doucet in Tehran Huge 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 he was reportedly 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 funeral How Iran's new regime is very different to what came before Khamenei'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 crowded 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 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered a joint attack on Iran four months ago that triggered a war in which thousands were killed. Mourners were also seen throwing stones at a billboard displaying Trump's face that was hung from a bridge. "The US killed our father. We won't let you go!" it read. "I came with honour and pride to show all the people of the world how much we loved him and how committed we are to the system, the people, and the Islamic Republic," Melika Nourian, a 22-year-old university student, told the AFP news agency. Many mourners waved Iranian flags and red banners symbolising vengeance Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was seen at the procession, local media reported.