Ceremonies for Khamenei’s fortieth day begin Tuesday.

Turnout will be read as a measure of Iran’s new Leader’s public standing.

In Shia practice, successive forty-day mourning cycles compounded into the 1978 uprising that created this office.

Rites continue through Thursday in Tehran, Qom and Mashhad, led by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

Sources: Mehr News Agency