Iran's slain head Khamenei laid in province for week of mass funeral events in Tehran
Published on July 03, 2026
The body of Iran's slain Supreme Head Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in province in a vast hall
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Iran's slain head Khamenei laid in province for week of mass funeral events in Tehran
The body of Iran's slain Supreme Head Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in province in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, representatives, external dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects after his 37-year rule.
Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei — killed in February by United States and Israeli airstrikes at the start of a four-month conflict — in a show of general devotion to the Islamic Republic's theocratic province and revolutionary fire.
Khamenei's body was expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi'ite centres of Iran and Iraq, before being laid to rest on Thursday in Mashhad, home to the country's holiest pilgrim shrine.
His coffin was unveiled late on Thursday to a throng of sobbing supporters, swaying and beating their heads in time to a sung lament as flowers were thrown from the bier into the crowd. On Friday the coffin — and those of family members killed with him — was laid in province in the great prayer hall built to honour his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The funeral comes at a critical moment for Iran, where the clerical rulers backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are riding high from surviving what they saw as an existential conflict against their greatest and most powerful foes.
But nearly five decades after the 1979 revolution, and for all the official proclamations of national unity in the run-up to Khamenei's funeral, the Islamic Republic has rarely been so internally fractured.
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