Tehran, IRNA – Preparations are in full swing for the funeral ceremonies of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who lost his life in an airstike by the US and Israeli terrorit regimes on his office in Tehran on the first day of the imposed war of aggression against Iran.

The governor of Sardasht city on the sidelines of OPCW Experts Investigations said: “Sardasht is the first city of the world that was targeted by chemical warfare.”

TEHRAN – The photo exhibition “Burnt Breaths” (Nafas-haye Sookhteh) opened at the Melal Cultural Center in Tehran, coinciding with the anniversary of the chemical bombing of Sardasht and the National Day for Combating Chemical and Biological Weapons. The event served as a platform to honor chemical warfare veterans and the physicians dedicated to their specialized care, while shedding light on the humanitarian and legal dimensions of the chemical attacks during the Sacred Defense.

It was 4:30 in the evening of June 28, 1987 that four chemical bombs were dropped on the Kurdish city of Sardasht located in northwestern of Iran. Also three other chemical bombs were dropped on the surrounding villages. Right now 25 years have exactly passed since that chemical bombardment. According to the reporter of Chemical Weapons Victims Information Base, the Deutsche Vale News Agency in an action as running forward expressed these sentences in order to remember the difficulties and suffering of Iranian people and it has apparently sympathized with them:

The children fell asleep in the silent alleys. I forgot my own pain when I saw the close eyes of the innocent children who had said good bye forever during their final games in the alleys and streets of the city…My heart was really aching for those persons who had lied down on the ground and they had left this world. They had closed their eyes forever and they did not wish to open their eyes anymore…

“Being exposed to chemical weapons caused that I become more serious to continue my education”, Shabnam Sheikhi said.

Israeli Prime Minister and senior military officials stress that the regime will push ahead with occupying southern Lebanon.

The headquarters for the commemoration of Iran's martyred Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has announced a six-day funeral schedule spanning five cities, beginning with a two-day farewell ceremony in Tehran on July 4.

The commander of the IRGC Quds Force wrote on his personal page to the Zionist soldiers: If you do not leave southern Lebanon by yourself, the epic of the year 2000 will be repeated again.

TEHRAN – Iman Attarzadeh, the spokesperson for the farewell and funeral ceremonies of the late Imam and martyred Mujahid, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, announced detailed plans for the upcoming commemorations, emphasizing that the expected public turnout is unprecedented in the past 47 years. Attarzadeh stated that meticulous planning is underway to accommodate millions of mourners.