By Parisa Hafezi and Jana Choukeir
DUBAI, July 3 – The body of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects after his 37-year rule.
Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei — killed in February by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes at the start of a four-month war — in a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic’s theocratic state and revolutionary fire.
Article origin: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/07/irans-slain-leader-khamenei-laid-state-tehran-week-mass-funeral-events
Original author: Parisa Hafezi
