This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him waving during a meeting with iranian people in Tehran, Feb. 1, ahead of the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. AFP-Yonhap
ISLAMABAD — Funeral ceremonies for former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be in July, the country's state-run television said Saturday, as mediators said an agreement to end the war was close.
The funeral, burial and farewell events for Khamenei will take place between July 4 and 9 during Muharram, a traditional period of mourning in the Shiite Muslim calendar.
Khamenei was killed in the opening attack of the war that Israel and the United States launched against Iran in late February. He is succeeded by his son, Mojtaba, who is seen as even less compromising.
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