Shafaq News- Tehran

Senior Iraqi officials, including President Nizar Amedi, Parliament Speaker Haibet al-Halbousi, and Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, will attend the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran's Fars News Agency said on Wednesday.

The Iraqi delegation will also include senior representatives of the Kurdistan Region, including leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Masoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Bafel Talbani.

Khamenei's body is scheduled to be flown to Iraq's Najaf on July 8 before being taken to the Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Shrine and later to Karbala for public funeral ceremonies, ahead of its return to Iran for burial in Mashhad.

Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes on February 28 in Tehran on February 28 after leading Iran for more than three decades. He was succeeded as Supreme Leader by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.