Iran’s supreme leader to lead first Friday prayer in four years honoring Hezbollah leader

MADRID 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will this week lead his first Friday prayer in four years, this time in honor of the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, who died last Friday in a bombing of the Israeli army against Beirut.

“This week’s Friday prayer will be led by Imam Khamenei, leader of the Islamic revolution, on October 4, 2024 at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran. There will also be a ceremony in honor of the martyr Hasan Nasrallah, standard bearer of the Resistance,” reads a statement published on Khamenei’s website.

On the other hand, the Israeli television network KAN has reported that Nasrallah’s funeral in Lebanon will also be held on Friday, something that has not been confirmed by either Hezbollah or the country’s authorities.

The last time Khamenei led Friday prayers was after the January 2020 missile attacks on two US military bases in Iraq, an action that came after the death of General Qasem Soleimani, head of Iraq’s Quds Force. the Revolutionary Guard, in a bombing carried out by the United States in Baghdad. To find his previous intervention in Friday prayers, we must go back to February 2012, when he commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in the country.