The ceremony was held in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah in Tehran on May 25, 2024, with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, senior officials, and thousands of people in attendance.

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 observed five days of national mourning with funeral processions for the victims held in multiple cities.

President Raisi was laid to rest at Imam Reza (AS) shrine in Mashhad, and Amir-Abdollahian was buried at the holy mausoleum of Hazrat Abdul Azim Hassani (AS) in Rey, south of Tehran, marking the end of days of funeral processions attended by millions of Iranians in several cities.