Follow live updates on the historic state funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Track foreign delegate arrivals and Iran's transition under Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iran is preparing the largest state funeral in its history for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strike on 28 February.

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowallDUBAI, July 2 - Iran's ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the…

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Govt to hold funeral events in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Iraq; hotels offer discounts, buses and trains diverted for mourners.

Delayed by months of conflict, Iran prepares to bury its slain supreme leader with week of mass mourning.

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Iran is preparing for days of nationwide funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turning the burial of the country's longtime supreme leader...

International delegates participated in a farewell ceremony for Iran’s late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Friday (July 3) as the the Islamic Republic’s ruling clerics…

By Parisa Hafezi and Jana ChoukeirDUBAI, July 3 - The body of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics,…

Iran has begun a multi-day state funeral for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, nearly four months after he was killed in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. Delegations…

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The body of Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects

The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran's late…

Top Iranian officials and foreign dignitaries pay respects to late leader killed in joint US-Israeli strike in February.

Iran began a weeklong funeral ceremony for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family members Friday.

Political and religious leaders have been paying tribute to the former supreme leader of Iran - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - at the start of days of public events marking his funeral.

Iranians began to gather on Friday for the funeral ceremonies of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as officials and international dignitaries paid their last respects to the man…

Khamenei's flag-draped coffin sat at Tehran's Grand Mosalla alongside family members killed in the Israeli airstrike that came in the first moments of the war on Feb. 28.

Iran began a dayslong funeral Saturday for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war. He was 86.

Several hundred people were already waiting on Friday evening outside the venue for the funeral of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei ahead of its opening to the public on…