The United States reportedly carried out a diplomatic campaign to discourage countries from attending the multi-day funeral ceremony of Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, with at least 13 countries either withdrawing or scaling down their participation, Iranian media reported.

Iranian leaders began paying their respects on Friday before the coffin of the country's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed in the US-Israeli strikes that triggered the…

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