Massive Funeral Held in Birjand for Iran’s President Raisi

IQNA – A large number of mourners attended a funeral procession in Iran’s eastern city of Birjand, South Khorasan Province, for President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday morning.

People from all over the province, even the most remote villages, traveled to Birjand to take part in funeral and pay tribute to the martyred president. 

After the procession concluded, the body of the president was taken to the city’s airport and from there to the holy city of Mashhad.

The president will be laid to rest at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad later today.

A helicopter carrying President Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, Friday prayers leader of Tabriz Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e-Hashem, Governor of East Azarbaijan Malek Rahmati, the commander of the president’s security team, two pilots and a flight crew crashed in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan on May 19, 2024. Their bodies were found on Monday after an extensive night-long search operation.

Iran is observing five days of national mourning with funeral processions for the victims scheduled in multiple cities.

 

The remains of the late officials were transferred to the Mosalla on Tuesday afternoon following funeral processions in Tabriz and Qom earlier in the day.

A major funeral procession was held in Tehran on Wednesday morning with millions of people taking part in it.

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