Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
The funeral procession for late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has begun in Tehran as authorities prepare for crowds that could rival those that turned out for his predecessor nearly four decades ago.<\/p>\n
After lying in state for two days at Tehran\u2019s Grand Mosalla religious complex, the body of Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the United States-Israel war on Iran, began its journey on Monday through the capital, accompanied by large crowds of mourners, state broadcaster IRIB reported.<\/p>\n
Authorities are hoping to avoid a repeat of the chaos that marred the 1989 funeral of Khamenei\u2019s predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini, which drew an estimated 10 million people, according to the state news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n
Crowd surges during Khomeini\u2019s funeral killed more than 10 people and injured over 10,000.<\/p>\n
Thousands filled the Grand Mosalla on Sunday to pay their respects to Khamenei and his four family members who were killed with him on February 28 in air strikes on his office in Tehran.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s procession will be followed by similar events in the clerical hub of Qom on Tuesday and in Iraq\u2019s holy cities of Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday, culminating in Khamenei\u2019s burial in his hometown of Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026 The funeral procession for late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[289,290,34,49,42,69,73],"class_list":["post-192223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-gallery","tag-in-pictures","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116871911333127823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192223","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=192223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}