New Delhi: Iran has invited Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leaders Salman Khurshid and Pawan Khera to attend the burial ceremonies of late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, set to take place next week, PTI reported.
The ceremonies are scheduled from July 5 to 9 across Tehran, Qom and Mashhad.
Salman Khurshid, who heads the Congress party’s foreign affairs department, said talks were on over the party’s participation.
“The Congress president is in the process of finalising the party delegation for Iran,” Khurshid said.
Khamenei, who headed Iran for three decades, was killed on February 28, the first day of heavy US and Israeli air strikes on Tehran.
According to the schedule, burial ceremonies will be held in Tehran and Qom on July 5, 6 and 7, while the concluding ceremony will be held in Mashhad on July 9.
India will be represented at the events by Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita and Bihar Governor Ata Hasnain.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had also invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the ceremonies.
The Congress leadership is likely to take a final decision on its delegation in the coming days.
