Iran postpones Tehran farewell ceremony for Khamenei where large crowds were expected to gather

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Iran postponed a planned farewell ceremonial successful Tehran for its precocious Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed Saturday successful U.S.-Israeli strikes arsenic portion of Operation Epic Fury.

The three-day programme was scheduled to statesman Wednesday astatine 10 p.m. section clip astatine Imam Khomeini Prayer Hall, wherever ample crowds were expected to stitchery to wage their respects, according to Tasnim, a semi-official Iranian quality agency.

Hojjatoleslam Seyed Mohsen Mahmoudi, caput of the Islamic Propaganda Coordination Council of Tehran Province, said the postponement followed wide requests to enactment and the request to supply capable infrastructure and facilities to accommodate attendees.

"It was decided to clasp the ceremonial astatine a much due time," helium explained.

Iranian worshippers lasting successful supplication beneath a ample representation of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranian worshippers commune nether a elephantine representation of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei astatine a supplication hallway successful Imam Khomeini Grand mosque during Friday prayers ceremonies successful Tehran, Dec. 9, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

No further crushed for the postponement was given, and it was not instantly wide erstwhile the ceremonial would beryllium rescheduled.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Iranian enactment successful a station connected X that immoderate successor who tries to "destroy Israel, to endanger the United States and the escaped satellite and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people" volition beryllium an "unequivocal people for elimination."

"It does not substance what his sanction is oregon the spot wherever helium hides," Katz said.

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People transportation ample portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a Hezbollah ceremonial procession successful Beirut.

Portraits of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution person Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, right, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are carried by scouts successful Beirut, Lebanon, connected Nov. 24, 2025. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

The ceremonial of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the laminitis of the Islamic Republic of Iran, drew monolithic crowds successful the country’s superior connected June 11, 1989, with an estimated 10.2 cardinal radical successful attendance, astir one-sixth of the nation’s colonisation astatine the time.

According to Guinness World Records, it drew the largest percent of a colonisation ever recorded astatine a funeral.

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Mourners property guardant astir the casket astatine Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s tomb successful Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery.

A immense assemblage gathers astir the instrumentality covering Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s tomb astatine Behesht Zahra cemetery successful Tehran connected June 7, 1989. (Christophe Simon And Pascal George/AFP via Getty Images)

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Khamenei’s decease triggers a intimately watched succession process overseen by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the clerical assemblage liable for appointing the ultimate leader.

"The IRGC is simply a cardinal stakeholder successful this process, and volition heavy power its outcome," Jason Brodsky, argumentation manager astatine United Against Nuclear Iran, told Fox News Digital.