Sri Lanka, March 4 -- Iran will hold a three-day "farewell ceremony" for its late leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei starting at 10 p.m. Wednesday (1830 GMT) at Tehran's Imam Khomeini prayer ground, according to state media.

Funeral procession details will also be announced when finalised, it said.

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

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 on their Telegram account.

After Khamenei's death, power was entrusted to a three-man interim council until the Assembly of E...