The last time Iran’s Supreme Leader led Friday prayers was after the January 2020 rocket attacks on two US military bases in Iraq.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today leads his first Friday prayer in four years, this time in honor of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, who was killed last Friday in a bombardment by the Israeli army in Beirut, Lebanon.
“This week’s Friday prayers will be led by Imam Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution, on October 4, 2024 at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran. There will also be a ceremony in honor of the martyr Hasan Nasrallah, standard-bearer of the resistance,” reads a statement published on Khamenei’s website.
Last time, Khamenei led Friday prayers It was after the rocket attacks were carried out in January 2020 against two US military bases in Iraq, an action that took place after the death of General Qasem Soleimani, head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, in a US bombing in Baghdad. find his earlier intervention At Friday prayers you have to return to February 2012as he commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
On the other hand, the Israeli television network KAN reported that Nasrallah’s funeral It will also be celebrated in Lebanon on Friday, something that has not been confirmed by Hezbollah nor the country’s authorities.
Source: EITB
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