Speaker of the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, MP, left Dhaka this morning for Iran to attend the janaza of Iran's former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli attacks in late February. 

The speaker departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:30 am today (Thursday) for Iran to participate in the funeral prayers of the Iranian leader, said a press release. 

The Speaker is scheduled to return to Bangladesh on July 4 after attending the funeral.

Khamenei was born on April 19, 1939, in the shrine city of Mashhad, where he later requested to be buried.

According to his official website, Khamenei first met the founder of the republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, decades before the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled US-backed shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Khamenei served as Iran's third president from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran-Iraq war.

Following Khomeini's death on June 3, 1989, the Assembly of Experts clerical body convened an emergency session and named Khamenei interim leader.

on February 28, the US and Israel launched a joint military campaign against Iran with a strike on a leadership compound.

The attack killed Khamenei along with several senior military officials, including Guards chief Mohammad Pakpour and security chief Ali Larijani.

The Assembly of Experts appointed Khamenei's son Mojtaba as his successor in March.

Source: PR/AFP