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Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei to be buried in Mashhad after fatal airstrikes
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s longtime supreme leader, is set to be buried in his hometown of Mashhad, according to the Fars news agency.
Khamenei, who led Iran for 36 years, was killed at the age of 86 amid a series of US-Israeli airstrikes over the weekend. He hailed from Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city, where his father is also buried at the Imam Reza shrine.
Before the burial, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced that a “large farewell ceremony” would take place in Tehran, though no official date for the burial has been released.
Following his death, authority has temporarily shifted to a three-member interim council comprising the president, the head of the judiciary, and a jurist from the Guardian Council, the body responsible for overseeing legislation and vetting electoral candidates, until the Assembly of Experts elects Khamenei’s successor.
Fars reported, citing an official source, that “for security reasons” the assembly’s final meeting may be postponed until after the burial.
Iranian media also reported that the building housing the assembly in Qom, south of Tehran, was struck by US-Israeli air attacks on Tuesday.
Its main headquarters in the capital had also been targeted the previous day.
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