On this day in 1987, Dr. Federik van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking intellectuals, to meet with the then-banned African National Congress (ANC) in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates were drawn from academic, professional, cultural, religious and business fields. Source: SAHO, Wikipedia
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🇮🇷 This is said to be the coffin of Ayatollah Khamenei's 14-month-old granddaughter, Zahra.
She was killed during U.S.-Israeli strikes on the day the war began, along with the Supreme Leader and much of their family.
Coffins shouldn't come in that size, but sadly they do.
Source: MES (Telegram) / Writer: Michael
Last night we were at Grand Musalla of Tehran, on the ground where the masses of people, millions, have gathered for the farewell ceremony on the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.
His body lies alongside four of his family members killed in the same US-Israeli assassination strike on 28 February this year: his Daughter Sayyida Bushra Hosseini Khamenei; Son-In-Law, Dr. Misbah al-Huda Baqeri Kani, Daughter-In-Law, Zahra Haddad Adel; his 14 months old Granddaughter, Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani.
The Imam Khomeini Musalla (also called Grand Mosalla or Musalla of Tehran) is a massive religious complex in Abbasabad, Tehran. A site area of Approximately 263 hectares. The Interior/building area is said to be around 223,500 m². The Main Courtyard (central prayer area/sahn) is up to 52,000 m². This is the primary open space where large gatherings and viewings occur.
In the video below, I’m standing on one side of the complex yard. There is still much more, & people are everywhere inside and outside the complex.
The funeral had been delayed due to the war. But finally, Iran has a chance to mourn the painful loss of its martyrs.
Trump ‘SHOCKED’ by crowds flooding Iran streets to MOURN Khamenei
‘I thought PEOPLE HATED him’
‘Neither side will shoot the other during funeral proceedings’
They wanted the funeral to look like an ending.
Tehran turned it into a fist in the sky with a beautiful drone show.
Messages do not always need speeches.
Sometimes one symbol is enough
to say:
We did not and will not break.