Iran is making ready to maintain a memorial service for Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s slain spouse and members of the family, who have been killed in airstrikes because the war started, in accordance to the state-affiliated media.
The ceremony is predicted to happen from Thursday to Friday at the Shah Abdol-Azim Hasani Shrine in Tehran, Nour News reported.
Khamenei’s spouse, Zahra Haddad Adel, in addition to his sister, brother-in-law and niece have been all killed in the identical February strikes that focused and killed his father, then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and varied different senior regime figures.
Ali Khamenei had dominated Iran with an iron fist for practically 4 a long time. His son was chosen to exchange him, however Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public for the reason that war started, selecting solely to launch written messages.
The new supreme chief was himself wounded within the February 28 airstrikes on his father’s residence in Tehran, and his reclusiveness sparked hypothesis concerning the extent of his wounds. This week, Iran’s well being ministry mentioned Mojtaba Khamenei sustained solely “superficial injuries” to his face, head and legs,” disputing western media stories that one in all his limbs had been amputated.