{"id":194803,"date":"2026-07-07T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/194803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:06:08","slug":"irgcs-qaani-arrives-in-iraq-for-khamenei-funeral-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/194803\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC&#8217;s Qaani arrives in Iraq for Khamenei funeral &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-07T18:47:15+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- Najaf <\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force<br \/>\ncommander, Esmail Qaani, arrived in the Iraqi city of Najaf, on Tuesday, to<br \/>\nattend the funeral procession of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Reports had circulated that Iraqi authorities had formally<br \/>\nobjected to Qaani&#8217;s participation in the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral is scheduled to begin in Najaf on Wednesday<br \/>\nmorning before continuing to Karbala. Khamenei&#8217;s body will then be transported<br \/>\nto the Iranian city of Mashhad for burial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Exclusive-Iraq-restricts-Khamenei-funeral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more:\u00a0Exclusive: Iraq restricts Khamenei funeral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-07T18:47:15+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Najaf Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[327,152,13413,34,94,424,57870],"class_list":["post-194803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-breaking","tag-esmail-qaani","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-irgc","tag-irgcs-qaani-arrives-in-iraq-for-khamenei-funeral"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116880263304039282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194803","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=194803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}