Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 36 years, will be buried in his hometown of Mashhad, the Fars news agency reported Tuesday. Khamenei, 86, was killed Saturday amid a series of US-Israeli attacks.
A “large farewell ceremony” is expected to take place in Tehran ahead of the burial, according to the Revolutionary Guards’ Telegram account, though no exact date has been announced.
Following his death, a three-member interim council—comprising the president, the head of the judiciary, and a jurist from the Guardian Council—has assumed leadership until the Assembly of Experts selects a new Supreme Leader.
Fars cited an official saying that, for security reasons, the assembly’s final meeting may be postponed until after Khamenei’s burial. Meanwhile, Iranian media reported that the building housing the 88-member Assembly in Qom and its main headquarters in Tehran were struck in the recent US-Israeli attacks.
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