The body of the slain Iranian religious leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei is to be buried in a Shiite shrine in his home city of Mashhad, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
The agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the burial is expected to take place behind the shrine of Imam Reza, similar to Khamenei’s father.
The mausoleum to the eighth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, Iran’s state religion, is considered the country’s most important Shiite shrine.
Prior to this, a public ceremony is planned in Tehran, according to Fars.
Details of the procedure and schedule are to be announced later.
Mashhad, a metropolis with a population of about 3 million in the north-east of the country, is the second-largest city in Iran.
Khamenei was born there on 19 April 1939.
He died in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday in Tehran.
