Khamenei Is Buried in Mashhad After 6 Days of Mourning and Fresh US-Iran Strikes
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Updated · BBC.com · Jul 9
Khamenei Is Buried in Mashhad After 6 Days of Mourning and Fresh US-Iran Strikes
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 9
Summary
Thousands in Mashhad watched Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s coffin reach the Imam Reza shrine at nightfall, completing the burial of Iran’s late supreme leader after six days of ceremonies across Iran and Iraq.
The funeral unfolded under renewed conflict: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accused the US of bombing two railway bridges from Tehran to Mashhad overnight, while Washington carried out a second night of strikes and Trump said a recent memorandum was now “over.”
Khamenei, 87, was killed with several family members in an Israeli strike on his Tehran residence on 28 February, the first day of the war with the US and Israel; his son Mojtaba, reported injured, again stayed out of public view.
Iran’s leadership used the choreographed mourning to project unity after a war and earlier unrest that killed thousands, but the latest exchanges with the US have clouded efforts to revive talks on a final truce and nuclear deal.