{"id":142373,"date":"2026-06-02T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142373\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:34:07","slug":"iran-prepares-for-ali-khameneis-funeral-in-tehran-qom-and-mashhad-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142373\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran prepares for Ali Khamenei&#8217;s funeral in Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-02T17:15:51+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Tehran<\/p>\n<p>The funeral of Iran&#8217;s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei<br \/>\nwill be held in three Iranian cities before his burial at the Imam Reza Shrine<br \/>\nin Mashhad, an Iranian official revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor for Social and Cultural Affairs Amin<br \/>\nTavakolizadeh told local media that funeral ceremonies will take place in<br \/>\nTehran, Qom, and Mashhad, adding that authorities are preparing to receive<br \/>\nbetween 15 and 20 million mourners in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Iranian-media-confirms-death-of-Ayatollah-Khamenei-in-US-Israeli-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killed<\/a> on February 28, 2026, in a joint<br \/>\nUS-Israeli air operation that targeted his presidential compound in Tehran.<br \/>\nPreparations for large-scale mourning and funeral ceremonies for Khamenei and<br \/>\nmembers of his family killed in the attack were delayed for months due to<br \/>\nsecurity concerns and ongoing military hostilities, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-02T17:15:51+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tehran The funeral of Iran&#8217;s former Supreme Leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[327,46647,152,1960,34,46646,6172,2168,69],"class_list":["post-142373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-and-mashhad","tag-breaking","tag-funeral","tag-iran","tag-iran-prepares-for-ali-khameneis-funeral-in-tehran","tag-preparations","tag-qom","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116681720648896140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}