Iran has fixed date for the funeral of its late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s state media disclosed that the funeral rites shall commence in Tehran, Iranian capital city on July 4, while the Supreme Leader will finally be buried in his home town of Mashhad on July 9.
According to the state media, the funeral will follow three days of funeral ceremonies in Tehran from July 4 and another in the holy city of Qom on July 7.
Recall that the 86-year-old Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israeli air strike on his compound in February.
The late Supreme Leader had led the Islamic Republic from 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had spearheaded the Islamic revolution a decade earlier.