{"id":16603,"date":"2026-07-04T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/najaf-karbala-funeral-ceremony-ayatollah-khamenei-preparations\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:16:17","slug":"najaf-karbala-funeral-ceremony-ayatollah-khamenei-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/najaf-karbala-funeral-ceremony-ayatollah-khamenei-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Najaf and Karbala Prepare to Host Funeral Ceremony for Grand Ayatollah Martyr Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Operations announced that all operational, service, and security arrangements for the funeral ceremony of Grand Ayatollah Martyr Seyyed Ali Khamenei have been finalized in the provinces of Najaf al-Ashraf and Karbala al-Mualla. The ceremony is scheduled to take place on Wednesday this week in these two cities.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Hussein Al-Eisawi, during his visit to Najaf al-Ashraf, reviewed the operational and security plans prepared by the Middle Euphrates Operations Command. According to him, these plans were developed with the participation of various PMF sectors, including commands, management, intelligence and security agencies, medical and rescue units, and other support divisions.<\/p>\n<p>He added that responsibility for support and organizing the ceremony has been assigned to several PMF brigades, with full coordination established with Iraqi security forces and other relevant institutions. Al-Eisawi stated that these preparations cover both the provinces of Najaf al-Ashraf and Holy Karbala.<\/p>\n<p>The PMF Operations Deputy also disclosed that alternative operational and service plans have been devised to ensure the smooth conduct of the ceremony, highlighting this level of preparedness as evidence of the organization\u2019s capacity to manage such events.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Eisawi emphasized that this ceremony serves as a message of loyalty to the blood of the martyrs who fell following the Zionist-American aggression. Referring to the prominent status of Martyr Seyyed Ali Khamenei within the Islamic world and among religious figures, he said Iraq takes pride in hosting the ceremony and welcoming participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najaf and Karbala finalize security and operational plans to host the funeral ceremony of Grand Ayatollah Martyr Seyyed Ali Khamenei this Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}