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TEHRAN, 1 August (BelTA — IRNA) — The Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic
Revolution has led a funeral prayer for Political Bureau Chief of the
Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Haniyeh who was
assassinated by the Zionist regime in Tehran.
According to IRNA’s
reporter, the ceremony to bid farewell to Martyr Ismail Haniyeh started
this morning (Thursday) at the University of Tehran.
Mourners
holding portraits of Haniyeh gathered in and around the University of
Tehran, where Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei prayers over the coffin of
the Hamas chief and one his bodyguards.
The office of the
Supreme Leader had announced that the funeral prayer would be held at
the university premise before the mourners march toward the Azadi
Square.
Tens of thousands of mourners are lined up on the road
to pay their last respect and bid farewell to Martyr Haniyeh while a
caravan carrying coffins is heading to the Azadi Square
Haniyeh
was assassinated in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday. He was in
the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration of Iranian President
Masoud Pezeshkian.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has already announced three days of public mourning.
The
Supreme Leader in a message following the martyrdom of the head of the
political office of Hamas said: «The criminal and terrorist Zionist
regime prepared the ground for a harsh punishment for itself with this
act, and we consider it our duty to avenge his blood as he was martyred
in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran».
Haniyeh will be laid to rest in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar following another funeral prayer there on Friday.
