Iran to bury its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday (July 9, 2026) at the country’s holiest shrine, with his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei still hidden from public view after being disfigured in the strike that killed his father.
The burial in Mashhad in northeast Iran follows a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies.
Also Read | How India withstood the crisis in West Asia Meanwhile, the United States and Iran traded strikes on Thursday (July 9, 2026) for the second day running as Washington and Tehran battled over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. forces said the latest attacks against Iran were aimed at “their ability to threaten the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz”, citing recent strikes against commercial ships in the waterway.
The strikes killed three people and wounded several others in Iran, official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
Iran’s reprisals came quickly, with the Revolutionary Guards saying they had struck “key infrastructure and facilities” at U.S. bases in Arifjan and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, and Juffair and Sheikh Isa in Bahrain.
The Iranian Army later said it had targeted sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar with one-way attack drones as part of its attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf, state TV reported.
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