Khamenei to be buried in Shiite shrine in home city

The mausoleum to the eighth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, Iran's state religion, is considered the country's most important Shiite shrine. 

Prior to this, a public ceremony is planned in Tehran, according to Fars.

Mashhad, a metropolis with a population of about three million in the north-east of the country, is the second-largest city in Iran. Khamenei was born there on April 19, 1939. 

He died in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday in Tehran.