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Iran's top leader to lead Friday prayers at time of crisis

by Associated Press
| January 17, 2020 12:05 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader will deliver a Friday sermon in Tehran for the first time since 2012, as the Islamic Republic grapples with the fallout from the targeted killing of its top general in a U.S. airstrike and popular anger at its accidental shootdown of a passenger plane.

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