{"id":16621,"date":"2026-07-04T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/ria-novosti-report-million-attend-tehran-funeral-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:37:17","slug":"ria-novosti-report-million-attend-tehran-funeral-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/ria-novosti-report-million-attend-tehran-funeral-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Agency RIA Novosti Reports Millions Attend Tehran Funeral Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian media outlet RIA Novosti has reported a massive turnout of people in Tehran bidding farewell to the sanctified body of the martyr leader of the revolution. The ceremony was held at Tehran&#8217;s Musalla, with a significant crowd participating.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mehr News Agency, various global media covered the event live and followed its developments closely. Their coverage mainly focused on the scale of public attendance and the atmosphere prevailing at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>RIA Novosti also cited Iranian officials estimating that approximately fifteen million Iranian citizens and foreign pilgrims attended the ceremony in Tehran. This figure was announced by the relevant authorities and reflected in the media report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian media RIA Novosti reports around 15 million people attended Tehran&#8217;s funeral ceremony for the martyr leader of the revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}