Iraq’s al-Sadr welcomes mourners arriving in Najaf and Karbala for Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral

Tehran, IRNA — Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Shia cleric and the leader of Iraq’s Sadrist Movement, has welcomed the people converging on the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala to attend the funeral and bid farewell to the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.