Mourners gather to pay their respects for Khamenei during a memorial service at the Iranian embassy in Oman's capital Muscat. (March 3, 2026)
Iran postpones state funeral for Khamenei
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Iran announced that a state funeral for supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which had been planned for Wednesday evening in Tehran, was postponed "in anticipation of unprecedented turnout," state television reported.
"The farewell ceremony for the martyred Imam has been postponed. The new date will be announced later," Iranian television reported on Wednesday after Khamenei was killed in US-‘Israeli’ strikes over the weekend.
Khamenei was 86 years old when he was killed, and will be buried in his home city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran.
‘Israel's’ Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to assassinate any Iranian leader picked to succeed Khamenei.
"Any leader selected by the Iranian terror regime to continue leading the plan for Israel's destruction, threatening the United States, the free world and countries in the region, and suppressing the Iranian people, will be a certain target for assassination, no matter his name or where he hides," Katz said in a post on X.
