TBM Report
Bangladesh Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed departed Dhaka for Tehran early Thursday to represent the nation at the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Speaker left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport aboard a special flight at 7:30 AM on July 2, 2026. Official sources from the parliament secretariat confirmed that Ahmed is scheduled to return to the capital on July 4 following the conclusion of the state funeral rites.
Khamenei, the definitive architect of Iran’s contemporary socio-political framework, passed away at the age of 86 following targeted military strikes by the United States and Israel on February 28 this year. Born on April 19, 1939, in the northeastern city of Mashhad, his demise marks the end of a pivotal era in Middle Eastern geopolitics. His death has triggered massive structural and diplomatic re-alignments throughout the Islamic Republic and the broader global matrix.
Historically, Khamenei assumed an instrumental role in institutionalizing the state infrastructure of Iran following the landmark 1979 Islamic Revolution. His early administrative tenure saw him briefly commanding the Ministry of Defense in 1980, where he successfully navigated the post-revolutionary military restructuring. His strategic oversight proved vital during the volatile transition period of the young republic.
During the prolonged Iran-Iraq War, Khamenei supervised the operations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) before transitioning to direct civil governance as the country’s elected President. Following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, the Assembly of Experts constitutionally elected Khamenei as the Supreme Leader, a position he maintained as the ultimate spiritual and political authority of the sovereign state.
