Photo courtesy of Tasnim news agency.
The burial in Ali Khamenei's hometown, the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, initially scheduled for March but postponed due to the US-Israel war, will follow three days of funeral ceremonies in capital Tehran beginning 4 July and another in the holy city of Qom on 7 July 7.
The final funeral ceremony will be held on Thursday, 9 July—coinciding with the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Sajjad, the fourth Shia Imam—in Mashhad, followed by burial at the holy shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shia Imam, as reported by Tasnim news agency.
Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, succeeded him as supreme leader in early March, the third since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
Because of security protocols, Mojtaba Khamenei, wounded in the US-Israeli strikes that killed his father, his mother, his sister, his brother-in-law, and their daughter, and numerous other officials, has not appeared in public since his appointment and communicates only through statements attributed to him.
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