The funeral procession for Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has started its journey through the capital Tehran. Khamenei ruled Iran for more than 35 years, before he was killed in US-Israeli air strikes in February. His funeral began on Friday, and will take place across seven days with events in locations within both Iran and Iraq. Iranian authorities have said 12-20 million people are expected to attend the various ceremonies. Khamenei's successor, son Mojtaba Khamenei, has so far been conspicuously absent from his father's funeral - which has been attended by a number of senior regime figures. Speculation about Mojtaba's condition - fuelled by rumours he was wounded in the same US-Israel air strikes that killed his father - has continued as he has not appeared in public since his appointment in early March.
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