Iran: PM Modi will attend the funeral of Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran’s President Pezheshkian sent formal invitation.
Delhi. Iran has sent a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the funeral of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be held in the first week of July. According to sources, this invitation has been sent to Mr. Modi on behalf of Iran’s President Masoud Pezheshkian. “Iranian President has sent a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the funeral of former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,” sources said.
Awaiting formal statement from the government
However, this invitation has not been confirmed yet by the government. The funeral of Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, will begin on July 4 and conclude with his burial on July 9 in the holy city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran. Mashhad was also his hometown.
His life was lost in the American air strike.
Iran’s 86-year-old leader died on February 28, the first day of Israel and America’s air strikes on Tehran. He served as the supreme leader of Iran for 36 years. His funeral could not take place at that time because there was a war going on between the three countries. The funeral procession will take place on July 4 with a farewell ceremony at the Grand Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran.
The ritual will start from 4th July
The main funeral procession in Tehran is scheduled for July 6, during which the martyred leader will be joined by four other martyrs—Dr. The bodies of Mesbah-ol-Hoda Bagheri, Seyyida Bushra Husseini Khamenei, Zahra Haddad Adel and Zahra Mohammadi Golpaygani—will also be transported. Funeral ceremonies will be held in the holy city of Qom on July 7, where prayers will be offered over the supreme leader’s body.
Formal invitation sent to PM Modi
After this, at the request of Iraqi tribes, scholars, dignitaries and political and religious figures, the procession will be taken to Iraq on July 8. Funeral ceremonies will be held in the cities of Najaf and Karbala, and it will be up to the Iraqi government to announce specific times and locations. The supreme leader’s burial is scheduled for July 9—which coincides with the night of Imam Sajjad’s martyrdom—at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad. Leaders, influential people and government delegations from across the world will pay tribute to the late leader. Information about the time and place of the program will be released by Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
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