The images emerging from Tehran are striking. Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black have gathered at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla for the funeral and lying in state of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following his assassination on February 28, the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital. Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian-American journalist, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and host of the Iran Podcast speaks to FRANCE 24 about the event in this edition of Spotlight.
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