Iran’s supreme leader, there Khamenei, last Saturday (5), appeared in public for the first time since the beginning of the war with Israel. The appearance occurred at a ceremony on the eve of Ashura, one of the main Shiite celebrations of the Islamic Republic.
The country’s largest political and religious authority participated in the celebration, which recalls the death of Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, in the Khomeini mosque in the Iranian capital, as published on his social networks.
Dressed in black in mourning, he was accompanied by Iran’s vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, Parliament President Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Iranian judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is in Azerbaijan to participate in the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (OS).
This is the first public appearance of the Supreme Leader since the war with Israel, which began on June 13 and lasted until June 24, when US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire.
In the 12 -day war, Israel destroyed military, atomic and energy facilities, killing at least 30 senior military commanders and 11 nuclear scientists. Iran responded with missile bombing waves in Israeli civil and military. At least 935 people were killed in the conflict, including 38 children in Iran and 28 in Israel.
Khamenei appeared in a television message after the ceasefire to claim that Iran “crushed” Israel and gave “a hard slap in the US, while stated that US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities have not resulted in” nothing significant. “
