Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday made his first public look because the outbreak of his nation’s latest 12-day warfare with Israel, collaborating in a non secular ceremony in Tehran, state media reported.
The octogenarian chief was proven in a video broadcast by state tv greeting folks and being cheered at a mosque as worshippers marked the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, an vital date for Shia Muslims.
Khamenei, 86, may be seen on stage wearing black as the group earlier than him, fists within the air, chants “The blood in our veins for our chief!”
State TV stated the clip was filmed at central Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosque, named for the founding father of the Islamic republic.
Khamenei, in energy since 1989, spoke final week in a pre-recorded video, however had not been seen in public since earlier than Israel initiated the battle with a wave of shock air strikes on June 13.
His final public look was two days earlier than that, when he met with members of parliament.
Israel’s bombing marketing campaign adopted a decades-long shadow warfare with Iran, and was geared toward stopping it from growing a nuclear weapon — an ambition Tehran has constantly denied.
The strikes killed greater than 900 folks in Iran, its judiciary has stated, whereas retaliatory Iranian missile barrages geared toward Israeli cities killed at the least 28 folks there, in response to official figures.