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A parade in Philadelphia, one of the largest in its history, was canceled on Friday, and the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington closed for several hours.
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For the surviving Iranian regime, the funeral offers an opportunity to project power after withstanding months of war with Israel and the United States.
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;Resize=(620)) The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late Supreme Leader, killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike earlier this year.
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Ali Khamenei's body will lie in state in Tehran's Grand Mosalla from Friday ahead of days-long funeral events.
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