A record number of passengers was set on the Tehran metro during the funeral of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim reported that more than 70 lakh people used the metro in just 13 hours and 30 minutes, from 5:30 PM Saturday to 7:00 AM Sunday.
The funeral prayer of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was held at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Sunday at 8:00 AM local time. The prayer was led by Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani. Millions of people participated in it.
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The funeral prayer was held in three stages. In the first stage, prayers were offered only for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the second stage, the funerals of Boshra Hosseini Khamenei, Mesbah al-Huda Bakery, and Zahra Haddad Adel were held. In the third stage, the funeral prayer of Khamenei's granddaughter Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani was performed.
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Source: Al Jazeera, Tasnim.
