{"id":556584,"date":"2026-07-03T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=556584"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:13:29","slug":"siarheenka-arrives-in-iran-for-khamenei-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/siarheenka-arrives-in-iran-for-khamenei-funeral","title":{"rendered":"Siarheenka Arrives in Iran for Khamenei Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House of Representatives <b>Ihar Siarheenka<\/b> has arrived in Iran on the instructions of <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, the House of Representatives&#8217; press service said.<\/p>\n<p>At Imam Khomeini International Airport, Ihar Siarheenka was welcomed by Iranian Parliament Deputy Speaker <b>Hamidreza Haji Babaei<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is expected to include meetings with the country&#8217;s leadership. The agenda is expected to cover bilateral and international issues, strengthening interparliamentary ties, and the implementation of joint economic and humanitarian projects.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the funeral of Ayatollah <b>Ali Khamenei<\/b>, the country&#8217;s former supreme leader, who was killed in February in a U.S. strike, is due to take place in Iran today. Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said representatives from more than 100 countries are expected to attend the mourning ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;During his working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Speaker of the House of Representatives Ihar Siarheenka will take part in the farewell ceremony for Iran&#8217;s slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The farewell ceremony will begin in Tehran today, July 3, and will continue until July 9. High-level delegations from dozens of countries will attend the first mourning event,&#8221;<\/i> the House of Representatives&#8217; press service added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House of Representatives Ihar Siarheenka has arrived in Iran on the instructions of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, the House of Representatives&#8217; press service said. At Imam Khomeini International Airport, Ihar Siarheenka was welcomed by Iranian Parliament Deputy Speaker Hamidreza Haji Babaei. The visit is expected to include meetings with the country&#8217;s leadership. The agenda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":556583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a477d3d87702.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Siarheenka Arrives in Iran for Khamenei Funeral"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-556584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}