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.

PART I - LEADERS OF COUNTRIES PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE MARTYRED LEADER, AYATOLLAH SEYYED ALI KHAMENEI

🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
🇮🇶 Iraqi Parliament
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇹🇯 Tajikistan
🇵🇰 Pakistan
- Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan

PART II - LEADERS OF COUNTRIES PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE MARTYRED LEADER, AYATOLLAH SEYYED ALI KHAMENEI

🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇮🇶 President of Iraq, Nizar Amidi🇪🇬 Egypt
- The President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Iraq, Bafel Talabani
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇬🇪 Georgia

Dmitry Medvedev pays his respects at Ali Khamenei's coffin in Tehran.
He offers condolences to President Pezeshkian and senior Iranian officials.

Saudi Arabia's delegation paid their respects to Ali Khamenei.

The small coffin of Khamenei's grandchild, one of the family members killed alongside him in the US-Israeli strikes, was displayed at the funeral proceedings.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf breaks down in tears