The Iranian regime today published the official funeral schedule for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening strike of Operation Roar of the Lion in late February, according to Abu Ali Express. The four-day program begins July 4 in Tehran and concludes with burial in Mashhad on July 9.
The Iranian regime today published the official, unified four-day funeral schedule for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, resolving what had been conflicting date reports throughout the day. The schedule, reported by Abu Ali Express, sets ceremonies from July 4–5 with a farewell at the Imam Khomeini Shrine in Tehran, a funeral procession in Tehran on July 6, in Qom on July 7, and burial in Mashhad on July 9.
Earlier today, The Zioneer tracked a sequence of partial and contradictory reports. At 13:39 Jerusalem, Iranian state television first announced that burial was set for July 9. Minutes later, a round-up by Asaf Rozentzweig (N12) citing multiple Iranian outlets showed that while the July 9 burial in Mashhad was consistent, earlier procession dates varied — some sources naming July 6 in Tehran and July 7 in Qom, others citing July 4. The Zioneer's dedicated thread entry published at 14:23 Jerusalem framed this as an unresolved discrepancy. The current official publication, reported at 14:47 Jerusalem, now provides a single authoritative schedule.
The decision to release a fixed, public schedule suggests the regime assesses the political and security environment as stable enough to plan a large-scale, multi-city state funeral. As The Zioneer reported on June 10 (15:36 Jerusalem), Iran's vice president and head of the funeral planning committee, Mohammad Reza Aref, stated that several neighboring countries have requested to send over one million mourners, while acknowledging Iran's limited capacity to accommodate all requests.
The publication of a unified schedule resolves the earlier date discrepancies. It remains unclear whether the timeline has been finalized in coordination with external security arrangements or logistical planning for foreign delegations.
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