Senior officials from Russia, Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration, Armenia, Iraq and Georgia paid tribute to Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at a farewell ceremony in Tehran on Friday (July 3).

Khamenei's body lay in state in a vast hall in the Iranian capital as foreign dignitaries, clerics, government officials and other mourners filed past his coffin to pay their respects. Khamenei was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes, according to Iranian authorities.

Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei, whose 37-year reign was brought to an end in February by the first airstrike of the war, in a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic's theocratic state and revolutionary zeal.

Khamenei's body was expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi'ite centres of Iran and Iraq, before being laid to rest on Thursday (July 9) in Mashhad, home to the country's holiest pilgrim shrine.

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TEHRAN, IRAN (JULY 3, 2026) (IRIB POOL - No use BBC Persian / No use VOA Persian / No use Manoto / No use Iran International / No use Radio Farda / No use Israel)

1. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL DMITRY MEDVEDEV ARRIVING FOR FAREWELL CEREMONY FOR IRAN’S SLAIN SUPREME LEADER ALI KHAMENEI

2. MARCHING BAND PLAYING

3. VARIOUS OF MEDVEDEV AND RUSSIAN DELEGATION WALKING UP TO COFFIN

4. VARIOUS OF MEDVEDEV AND DELEGATION PAYING RESPECTS

5. VARIOUS OF MEDVEDEV SHAKING HANDS WITH IRAN PRESIDENT, MASOUD PEZESHKIAN

6. MEDVEDEV SHAKING HANDS WITH IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ABBAS ARAQCHI

7. MARCHING BAND PLAYING

8. VARIOUS OF AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN FOREIGN MINISTER AMIR KHAN MUTTAQI AND AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN DELEGATION ARRIVING

9. VARIOUS OF AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN DELEGATION PAYING RESPECTS INFRONT OF COFFIN

10. AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN DELEGATION APPROACHING IRANIAN OFFICIALS

11. AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN DELEGATION SHAKING HANDS WITH IRAN OFFICIALS - FROM RIGHT IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT, MOHAMMAD BAQER QALIBAF AND HEAD OF JUDICIARY, GHOLAMHOSSEIN MOHSENI EJEI

12. ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER NIKOL PASHINYAN ARRIVING

13. PASHINYAN SALUTING MARCHING BAND

14. VARIOUS OF PASHINYAN STANDING IN FRONT OF KHAMENEI’S COFFIN

15. VARIOUS OF IRAQI PRESIDENT NIZAR AMIDI AND DELEGATION ARRIVING

16. VARIOUS OF AMIDI PRAYING INFRONT OF COFFIN

17. MARCHING BAND PLAYING

18. VARIOUS OF GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHEIL KAVELASHVILI AND DELEGATION ARRIVING

19. VARIOUS OF KAVELASHVILI STANDING IN FRONT OF COFFIN

20. KAVELASHVILI SHAKING HANDS WITH IRANIAN OFFICIALS