Mourners gather in Tehran to bury those killed by Israeli-US strikes

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Tehran, Iran - 9 March 2026
1. Mourners carrying casket wrapped in Iranian flag
2. Woman crying
3. Body being buried
4. Woman crying over a grave
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Zahra Masroofi, bereaved relative:
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"He was my brother, and she was my niece, both of them were martyred in a bombing along the route, No, they were at a rest stop when the bombing happened, on the Tehran-Qazvin road. At a rest stop where 30 people were martyred. One of them was 35-years-old, the other was 25. What sin had my children committed? My children still had dreams. When they brought my child back, my child had no hands."
6. Mourners at cemetery, pan down to flowers
7. Various of mourners putting flowers and crying next to cemetery
STORYLINE:
While strikes continue hitting the capital of Iran, dozens of people gathered in Tehran on Monday to bury those killed by Israeli-US strikes in the last few days.

In a media tour organized by the government, families were burying their loved ones and putting flowers on their graves.

One of the mourners said that 30 people were killed in a bombing that hit a rest stop on the Tehran-Qazvin road.

Earlier Monday, Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel.

Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the US and Israel bombed targets across Iran.

With Iran’s theocracy under assault for more than a week, the country’s Assembly of Experts chose the secretive, 56-year-old cleric with close ties to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as the new supreme leader.

The Guard has been firing missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf Arab states since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled Iran for 37 years, was killed during the war’s opening salvo.

The appointment marked a new sign of defiance by Iran’s embattled leadership after more than a week of heavy US and Israeli bombardment, suggesting that Tehran is not close to giving up on what it considers a fight for the country's existence.

AP video by Mohsen Ganji

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