Tehran: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has extended a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to be held in the first week of July. Sources said, However, New Delhi was yet to confirm the invite.
The funeral of Khamenei will start on July 4 and end with his burial in the holy city of Mashhad in north eastern Iran, which was also his hometown, on July 9.
It may be recalled, the 86 year old was killed on the very first day of Israel and US airstrikes on Teheran on February 28. Khamenei had been serving as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic for 36 years. The funeral of Ayatollah could not take place earlier as Iran was at War with the US and Israel.
The funeral will commence with a farewell ceremony at Teheran’s Grand Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Saturday, July 4, and Sunday, July 5, according to the spokesperson for the commemoration headquarters. The main funeral procession in Teheran scheduled for Monday, July 6, during which the bodies of four additional martyrs will be escorted along the martyred leader.
On Tuesday, July 7, funeral ceremonies will be held in the holy city of Qom. where prayers will be offered over the leader’s body.
The procession will then travel to Iraq on Wednesday, July 8, following repeated requests from Iraqi tribes. schoolers. elites and religious figures. Funeral rites will be held in cities of Najaf and Karbala, with Iraqi government responsible for announcing specific times and locations.
The burial is scheduled for Thursday. July 9- coinciding with the night of Imam Sajjad’s martyrdom at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad.
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