Footage confirmed Khamenei’s coffin, bearing the colors of the Islamic Republic, being carried aloft on the Grand Mosalla on Friday.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian was amongst these paying their respects after the coffin was positioned on the huge non secular advanced.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose nation has mediated peace talks between the US and Iran, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and the Afghan Taliban’s International Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi had been additionally in attendance.
Six days of ceremonies will begin at 06:00 (03:30 BST) on Saturday, at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla, which guests can go to to pay their respects till Sunday afternoon.
There can be an official funeral ceremony in Tehran on Saturday, which the Tehran-based Mohammad Rasulullah Corps is main.
The group’s commander Hassan Hassanzadeh stated Khamenei’s coffin can be displayed on an elevated platform, with crowd flows designed to permit guests to enter and depart inside 15 to twenty minutes.
Khamenei’s physique will lie within the Grand Mosalla for 3 days, alongside the stays of members of the family who had been additionally killed within the US and Israeli strikes in February.