Speaker leaves for Tehran to attend Khamenei's janaja

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmad has left Dhaka for Iran to attend the namaj-e-janaja and burial of the country's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Prime Minister left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Tehran on Thursday (July 2) at 7:30 am. BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter.

Iran's supreme leader was killed in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in late February. Iranian authorities expect Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral and burial to be attended by two million people. This information was reported in a report by Al Jazeera.

The ceremony is scheduled to begin on July 4 in Tehran and Qom. Khamenei's funeral will take place on July 9 in Mashhad, the birthplace of Khamenei in the country's northeast.

Ayatollah Khamenei was born on April 19, 1939, in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, and was martyred on February 28, 2026. He was 86 years old at the time of his death. He played an important role in the regime that changed after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.

In 1980, he briefly served as Minister of Defense. After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, he became the caretaker of the Islamic Revolutionary Forces and was elected president of Iran. After the death of Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Iran's Council of Experts elected him as Iran's supreme religious leader.

After attending the namaz-e-janaza, the speaker will return home on July 4.