{"id":530827,"date":"2026-07-08T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:27:07","slug":"funeral-prayers-in-iraq-for-iranian-supreme-leader-commence-after-body-arrives-in-holy-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530827\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral prayers in Iraq for Iranian supreme leader commence after body arrives in holy city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RL4O7YTHHZEK7OUNLNZITNODGY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NAJAF, Iraq \u2014 Funeral processions for Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began Wednesday in the Iraqi city of Najaf with thousands of mourners present.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3AMCKXVVRZF75FVUIBKNIQUXZM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Islamic Republic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/khamenei-funeral-supreme-leader-iran-us-war-july-6-2026-88b7f2e4902c18e2c1aa0eb91ad7bcfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dayslong funeral for Khamenei<\/a> began Saturday, with authorities shutting down streets, airspace and daily life in Tehran as mourners commemorate the life of the man who led Iran for decades with an iron fist while confronting the West. His body will later be taken from Najaf to the city of Karbala before returned to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAJAF, Iraq \u2014 Funeral processions for Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began Wednesday in the Iraqi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65030,122,42,117780,242279,43,7319,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-530827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-funerals-and-memorial-services","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-ml-iran-us-khamenei-funeral","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}