Iranian state media has prominently reported on demonstrations in the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere in support of the country’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

The semi-official Mehr news agency published a video of demonstrations apparently attended by thousands of people with the title: “The roar of people in several cities in the country pledging allegiance” to Khamenei.

One woman told the semi-official Tasnim news agency: “I sacrifice my grandchildren and children, all of them, for the (Islamic) Revolution.”

“They martyred our supreme leader to weaken our religion, but they didn’t know that it would revive our religion,” said another woman, referring to the assassination of Khamenei’s father last week.

State media also circulated a video showing regime supporters celebrating Khamenei’s rise in Isfahan’s central square, as smoke rose nearby.

Isfahan has been attacked several times over the past week.

The Ministry of Education announced on Monday the cancellation of virtual classes “to allow maximum participation of teachers and students in the ceremony of swearing allegiance to the Supreme Leader.”

Senior clerics have also offered their support to Khamenei.

Ayatollah Arafi, who was part of the interim council that led Iran for the past week, said the Iranian people must be “as proactive and diligent as they were during the era of the late Imam Khomeini” in supporting the new Supreme Leader.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the first supreme leader of the Islamic republic.

His grandson, Seyed Hassan Khomeini, pledged support for Khamenei and said that “the most important thing is the protection of beloved Iran and the Islamic Republic against the savage aggression of the Zionist regime and criminal America.”

However, state media has not published any messages from prominent reformist voices in Iran, such as former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Hassan Rouhani.