Tens of thousands of mourners — the faithful and the loyal clad in black — beat their chests and chanted to mourn Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
From before dawn they flocked to see the five coffins neatly stacked in Tehran’s massive Musalla mosque complex, where inside lay the remains of the late Ayatollah and the relatives killed with him in US-Israeli strikes.
The mood was sorrowful, with tears flowing freely on the faces of many. Among Shia Muslims religious belief is often expressed intensely emotionally, but the loss of the only head of state many Iranians have ever known gave the day added weight.
“I even loved him more than my father. It’s as if I lost my father again,” 30-year old Nafiseh Sadat Sadri told CNN. “I feel that I’ve become an orphan, it burns in my heart.”
Revenge too was on the lips of many.
“I assure you that we will not let [US President Donald Trump] have a good night’s sleep from now on unless we get revenge for the blood of our leader,” Abdullah Abipour, 45, said.
Scrawled in chalk along the blast walls separating sections for men and most women were slogans against the deal with the US.
“No negotiation with Satan” “Curse be upon he who negotiates” “This negotiation is with hypocrite” passers-by added to the white lines of text.
Small numbers of foreign pilgrims, including from Pakistan and Afghanistan, were evident on the streets of Tehran and while tens of thousands of mourners filled the Musalla complex Saturday, we are yet to see the millions the government expect to attend the weekend’s commemorations.
“Once I heard this was going to happen I cancelled my flights,” Afshin, 60, from Arizona told CNN in front of Khamenei’s coffin. Visiting Iran, he’s lived in the US since before the Islamic Revolution of 1978.
“Trump did the worst thing” when he killed Khamenei, he said.
Others described Khamenei’s death as a pivotal moment in Iranian history.
“With his passing nothing has come to an end,” Reza, 25, told CNN. Khamenei’s son will continue his path and philosophy, he said.
Even so, “a more dangerous chapter has begun for his enemies,” the young man added.
CNN operates in Iran only with the permission of the government but maintains full editorial control of its reports.
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