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Iranians mourn Khomeini's widow

Khadijeh Saqafi, who was known as the "mother of the Islamic revolution", died on Saturday at the age of 93.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other senior officials took part in the funeral prayer, led by current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

She was buried at Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine in Tehran.

Read entire article at BBC