Roya Pour Bagher, journalist and writer
Women and children from all walks of life flocked to a single complex in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran…for the sake of seeing him, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Sayyid Ali Khamenei, in flesh. His speech was meant to start at 11 a.m. However, the attendees woke up for morning prayers at around 5 a.m. and began getting ready to leave. Those coming from other cities left their homes a day or more earlier, and some in Tehran could not sleep the night before due to excitement. Getting inside the meeting hall is a long and complicated process for security reasons. However, this sacrifice is nothing to the attendees compared to the pleasure of being in his vicinity.
