The body of Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei arrived in the holy city of Qom yesterday evening, hours after a sea of people filled the streets of Tehran for his funeral procession in the capital.

Ordinary Iranians loyal to the Islamic republic joined top officials for the event, in which a truck carrying the bodies of Khamenei and four family members killed in a February 28 U.S.-Israeli strike inched its way to Azadi Square in the west of the city.

Yesterday’s procession will be followed by similar events in Qom today and in Iraq’s holy cities of Najaf and Karbala on Wednesday (July 8, 2026).

“The body of the martyred leader has arrived in Qom,” south of the capital, state television said on social media, alongside footage showing a helicopter carrying Khamenei’s body landing in the city.

– AFP