Iran's former supreme leader Khamenei to be buried in Mashhad

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Iranian state funeral organizers have released a timetable for the rites of former supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, with a farewell ceremony at Tehran's Mosalla complex on July 4-5, a transfer to Qom for a further farewell, and burial in Mashhad on July 9 in accordance with his will, APA's Tehran bureau reports. The headquarters overseeing the arrangements published the sequence and locations, which sets firm dates and locations for national ceremonies and for logistical and security preparations in three cities.

Khamenei will be buried in Mashhad on July 9.