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Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n
Iraq has imposed restrictions on funeral ceremonies for late Iranian
\nSupreme Leader Ali Khamenei, limiting locations and excluding senior Iranian
\nmilitary figures over security concerns, Iraqi sources told Shafaq News on
\nSunday.<\/p>\n
The restrictions reportedly bar participation by senior commanders of \u2018\u2019Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi pushed back against holding any ceremonies Another source also said that Iraqi authorities had notified Tehran that \u2018\u2019Iraqi officials view the ceremonies as carrying implications beyond Meanwhile, the Coordination Framework (CF), Iraq\u2019s main Shiite political Speaking to Shafaq News, Amer al-Fayez, head of the Tasmim Alliance and Khamenei was killed<\/a> on February 28 in a joint US-Israeli strike on his compound in Under the schedule outlined, Khamenei’s body will be flown from the Official funeral ceremonies began<\/a> in Tehran on Friday and are scheduled
\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including Quds Force chief
\nEsmail Qaani, while confining any ceremonies to the holy cities of Najaf<\/a> and
\nKarbala.<\/p>\n
\nin Baghdad,\u2019\u2019 the source added, citing security concerns and political
\nsensitivity linked to regional tensions.<\/p>\n
\nno Iranian military officials would be allowed to attend, in order to avoid
\npotential security complications and political messaging tied to the event.<\/p>\n
\ntheir religious character,\u2019\u2019 he explained, warning they could be interpreted as
\na display of Iranian influence in Iraq at a time when Baghdad is trying to
\npreserve a careful regional balance.<\/p>\n
\nalliance, refuted the claims that Qaani had been barred from entering the
\ncountry or attending the funeral ceremonies in Najaf and Karbala.<\/p>\n
\na senior figure within the Framework, underlined that Qaani has not engaged in
\nany conduct that would justify restricting his presence in Iraq, dismissing the
\nreports as misleading and aimed at straining ties between Baghdad and Tehran,
\nwhich he noted remain grounded in shared interests.<\/p>\n
\ncentral Tehran, ending a 37-year tenure as supreme leader. Iraq’s role in the
\nfuneral is confined to the provinces of Najaf and Karbala, two cities central
\nto Shiite religious life, where organizers expect mass participation.<\/p>\n
\nIranian holy city of Qom to Najaf International Airport, then taken to the
\nshrine of Imam Ali for farewell rites. The procession will continue to Karbala
\n\u2014home to the shrine of Imam Hussein bin Ali, another of Shiite Islam’s holiest
\nsites\u2014 passing along Al-Abbas Street to the area between the two shrines,
\nbefore the body returns to Najaf airport for transfer to the Iranian city of
\nMashhad, where Khamenei is to be buried at the shrine of Imam Ali bin Mousa
\nal-Rida (Imam Reza) on July 9.<\/p>\n
\nto continue for about a week before burial, according to the committee
\norganizing the ceremonies.<\/p>\n