{"id":718140,"date":"2026-06-21T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718140\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:05:12","slug":"iran-details-iraq-leg-of-ayatollah-khamenei-funeral-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718140\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran details Iraq leg of Ayatollah Khamenei funeral – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The planned funeral procession route of Iran\u2019s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iraq will begin in Najaf before moving to Imam Ali\u2019s shrine, Karbala, and another site yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Hamid Al-Husseini, head of Iran\u2019s religious delegation to Babil and a representative of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, told Shafaq News on Sunday that Khamenei\u2019s body would then be transferred to Mashhad for burial in accordance with his will, describing the Iraq procession as an \u201cexceptional event\u201d expected to draw wide participation from provinces, tribes, and religious bodies.<\/p>\n

Iran has announced funeral ceremonies for Khamenei beginning in Tehran on July 4, followed by Qom on July 7, Iraq on July 8<\/a>, and burial in Mashhad on July 9.<\/p>\n

Khamenei, who served as Iran\u2019s supreme leader from 1989 until his death, was killed on February 28 during the opening day of US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran. Iranian authorities postponed funeral ceremonies during the conflict before announcing the multi-city procession. Mohammed, a participant from Yemen, described joining the funeral ceremonies as a \u201cmoral and religious duty,\u201d citing what he called shared values and a history of cooperation between Iraqis and Iranians.<\/p>\n

\u201cIraqi-Iranian ties are rooted in historical brotherhood,\u201d Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amidi, a Babil tribal figure, told Shafaq News, adding that Middle Euphrates tribes were ready to help organize the ceremonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-21T21:55:24+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Babil The planned funeral procession route of Iran\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[180119,16993,4,450,157727,451,801,309306,14945,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-718140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-funeral","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-details-iraq-leg-of-ayatollah-khamenei-funeral","tag-iraq","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}