Tehran Mourns Late Supreme Leader

August 18, 2026, Tehran, Iran: A woman holds a placard depicting three black-turbaned clerics during a ceremony marking the 40th day since the burial of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran, Iran, on August 18, 2026. The ceremony was part of commemorations scheduled in Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad after Khamenei was laid to rest near the Imam Reza Shrine leer más in Mashhad on July 10, following days of funeral processions in Iran and Iraq. Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on Tehran on February 28, at the outset of the war. leer menos