On July 7 local time Iranian President Pezeshkian and his delegation arrived in
Najaf and a plane carrying the body of Iran's late Supreme Leader Khamenei also
landed in Iraq. Official schedule sets a burial service in Qom on July 7; at the
request of Iraqi figures, funeral rites will be held in the Shiite holy cities
of Najaf and Karbala on July 8; interment is scheduled in Mashhad, Khamenei's
birthplace, on July 9.