Iran's former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will be laid to rest with state honors today, Thursday (July 9). He will be buried in his birthplace of Mashhad.His body has already been brought back to Iran from the historic city of Karbala in Iraq. Afterward, his mortal remains were taken to the Imam Reza Shrine complex for the funeral prayers.Khamenei was born in 1939 in Mashhad, the second most populous city of Iran, home to nearly three million people. The city is considered as a...
