By Farsi team
The funeral ceremonies for Ali Khamenei, the former leader of the Islamic Republic, will be held from July 4 to July 9. Khamenei was killed on February 28, 2026, in the opening hours of a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, along with a number of senior officials and military commanders.
According to a statement by the committee in charge of commemorating Iran’s former leader, his body will lie in state at the Tehran Mosalla on July 4 and 5, 2026.
According to the same announcement, a funeral procession for Ali Khamenei will be held in Tehran on July 6, 2026. A further funeral ceremony is scheduled to take place in the holy city of Qom on July 7, 2026.
Finally, the late supreme leader is due to be buried on July 9, 2026, at the shrine of the eighth Shia imam in Mashhad, following a funeral procession through Iran’s second-largest city.
