🇮🇷 THE WORLD BIDS FAREWELL TO THE MARTYRED LEADER — DELEGATIONS ARRIVING
Despite four months of war and immense pressure, the Islamic Republic has drawn representatives from around 100 countries to honor Sayyed Ali Khamenei — a rebuke to those who bet on Iran's isolation. The official delegations are on the ground for the farewell, funeral, and burial ceremonies across Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, Najaf and Karbala.
Axis of Resistance, standing with Iran
🇾🇪 Large Yemeni delegation; senior Ansarallah (Houthi) officials flying direct from Sana'a
🇱🇧 Hezbollah leadership and the family of martyred Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, alongside Amal Movement
🇮🇶 Factions of the Iraqi Resistance, incl. Kata'ib Hezbollah Mujahideen
🇵🇸 Large Palestinian delegation of representatives/scholars; PFLP delegation
🇸🇾🇲🇦 Resistance Front representatives from Syria and Morocco
Heads of state and government honoring the Leader
🇮🇶 President of Iraq
🇬🇪 President of Georgia
🇦🇲 Prime Minister of Armenia
🇹🇯 President of Tajikistan (Rahmon)
🇰🇬🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇲 Leaders/senior officials of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇮🇶 President of Iraqi Kurdistan Region
🇵🇰 PM Shehbaz Sharif; Interior Minister Naqvi; Army Chief
🇹🇷 Turkey's First Vice President (no Erdogan)
🇴🇲 Omani delegation
Great powers standing by Tehran
🇷🇺 Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's special envoy, with Orthodox Church and Sunni/Shia theologian reps
🇨🇳 He Wei, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee
🇮🇳 Senior Indian delegation (MoS Margherita, Bihar Governor Hasnain); Congress party envoy separately
Also present
🇦🇫 Taliban administration — Deputy PM and acting FM; scholars incl. Ahmad Massoud (son of Ahmad Shah Massoud)
🇮🇩🇪🇸🇪🇨🇧🇴 Religious/cultural figures from Indonesia, Spain, Ecuador, Bolivia
🇧🇦🇭🇺🇧🇩 Religious leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Bangladesh
Plus parliamentary speakers, foreign/cabinet ministers and envoys from dozens more nations across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.
Notably absent by choice: new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, kept from public appearances on security advice.
Schedule: Foreign dignitaries' tribute ceremony held today at Imam Khomeini Mosalla, Tehran. Body lies in state through Sat–Sun, followed by funeral procession through Tehran Monday, then rites in Qom, Baghdad, Karbala, and Najaf, before burial in Mashhad on July 9.
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