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Our Middle East correspondent Abdi Latif Dahir attended the first day of funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran who was killed by U.S. and Israeli air strikes in February.
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As days of public mourning ceremonies began, Iranians viewed the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks.
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Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a days-long funeral on Saturday for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's late supreme leader, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and calling for revenge against Israel and the United States.
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NBC News' Richard Engel is in Tehran where huge crowds are gathering for the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Our team was at the mosque where mourners were chanting "death to America." The ayatollah was killed in American and Israeli airstrikes at the start of the war earlier this year.
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