Funeral ceremonies for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have begun in Tehran. He was killed in an airstrike that also killed his daughter-in-law. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
On July 2, 2026, mourners touched the coffin of Zahra Haddad-Adel, daughter of former Iranian parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and wife of Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during her funeral in Tehran. According to Iranian authorities, she was killed in the same strike that killed then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
A portrait of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and an Iranian flag were displayed in the window of a bookstore ahead of Khamenei's funeral ceremonies in Tehran.
Revolutionary Guard members and clerics mourned on the esplanade of the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque as preparations were underway ahead of the dayslong funeral ceremonies for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, then Iran's supreme leader, was pictured speaking during Friday prayers at Tehran University on July 30, 1999.
The funeral ceremonies are expected to last several days.