Mourners bid farewell to Ayatollah Khamenei in Qom

Mourners bid farewell to Ayatollah Khamenei in Qom Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday in the Iranian holy city of Qom during a fourth day of funeral proceedings for the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The remains of Khamenei, who was killed in late February on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran, are lying in state at the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, a holy city that houses Shia Islam's most influential seminaries and shrines. Aerial footage broadcast by state television showed the streets of Qom -- home to about 1.