Participants in mourning ceremonies for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei draped a red flag, inscribed 'Ya Hussein,' over his coffin at the burial site in Ravak-e Shordust. The red flag is a traditional Shia symbol calling for vengeance, according to Iranian Telegram channels.
This morning, mourners at the burial site of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Ravak-e Shordust draped a red flag over his coffin, according to Iranian Telegram channels. The flag bears the inscription "Ya Hussein" — a reference to Imam Hussein, the third Shia imam martyred at Karbala, whose blood is traditionally invoked as a call for vengeance. The act updates an earlier report by The Zioneer on June 21 (linked in background) describing the raising of a similar red flag near the death site on the sixth night of mourning; the current event places the flag directly on the coffin during what appears to be a later stage of the ceremonial seventh-month mourning period. A similar symbolic gesture was reported on June 10, when a 'red flag' was hoisted in Iran as a general readiness-for-battle signal, though no specific motive or military action was tied to that act. The ritual carries deep emotional weight in Shia eschatology, where the red flag is associated with the expected revenge for the killing of previous imams and a call to arms — though Iranian sources have not linked it to any operational military posture.
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