War on Gaza draws large crowds to Khamenei’s funeral in Iraq

Hundreds of thousands of mourners have gathered here just outside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf and more than a million have been seen walking the streets following the procession of Ali Khamenei as they come here to pay their respects. So why such a big turnout that's being witnessed right now? One word that we've seen repeated over and over and we have spoken to people is Gaza. People have been disgusted at the images of women and children civilians being slaughtered in Gaza in addition to wholesale aggression from Israel in Lebanon and America and Israel in Iran most recently. Ali Khamenei in this context stands as a man who's in opposition to the American and Israeli aggression, something that they feel needs to be stood behind in a gesture of Islamic solidarity. There are many things you can say about the Iranian government over the 30-year period which have been terrible in terms of human rights, most recently killing thousands of protesters of their own people but no one cares about that right now. What they want right now is a man for which they can stand behind in solidarity with the Islamic world and that man is Ali Khamenei accounting for why so many people have turned up on the streets of Najaf today.