Srinagar, June 13 -- Srinagar-Iran has announced a series of farewell, funeral and burial ceremonies for Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, more than four months after the country's supreme leader was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike during the opening phase of the US-Israeli military campaign against the Islamic Republic.

The office responsible for preserving and publishing the works of the late leader said ceremonies would be held in Tehran, Qom and Mashhad over six days, culminating in his burial at the shrine of Imam Reza, one of Islam's holiest sites in the Iranian province of Khorasan.

Seyyed Ali Hossaini Khamenei was assassinated on February 28 in Tehran. Iranian authorities confirmed his death on March 1.

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