The ritual was held privately and in the absence of audience in order to observe the COVID-19 health protocols and only a religious reciter and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei attended it.
One of the interim Friday prayer imams of Tehran, Hojjatoleslam Seddiqi said in the ritual that the most blessed servants of God love to be martyred.
“Martyrdom is the chance to be unified with God, and every blessed servant of God’s greatest wish, and the greatest achievement of the Islamic Revolution was training unique students like Martyr Soleimani at Imam Ali and Lady Fatima’s school of thought,” he added.
