Slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be buried in his hometown of Mashhad after a farewell ceremony in Tehran, state media reports.

TEHRAN: Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be buried in the holy city of Mashhad, the Fars news agency reported.

Khamenei, who led the country for 36 years, was killed at 86 during a wave of US-Israeli attacks.

He was originally from Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city, where his father is buried at the Imam Reza shrine.

Before the burial, a “large farewell ceremony” will be held in Tehran, the Revolutionary Guards said.

No date for the burial was disclosed.

After Khamenei’s death, power was entrusted to a three-man interim council until the Assembly of Experts elects his successor.

It includes the president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist from the Guardian Council.

Fars, citing an official, reported that “for security reasons”, the assembly’s final meeting could be postponed until after Khamenei’s burial.

Iranian media said the building housing the 88-member body in the holy city of Qom was hit by US-Israeli strikes.

Its main headquarters in the Iranian capital was also struck the day before.

 The Sun Malaysia