He Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, died on Sunday in a helicopter accident, He was buried this Thursday in his hometown of Mashhad (northeast), after three days of massive funerals.
The city’s mayor, Mohammad Reza Qalandar Sharif, stated that Three million people had participated in the procession. Independent evaluations are not yet available.
After hours of processions, Raisi was buried in the Iman Reza mausoleum, the eighth imam of Shiism, the most important religious site in the country. Before reaching Mashad, located 800 kilometers east of Tehran, a procession was held in the city of Birjand, of which Raisi was a representative in the Assembly of Experts, the body made up of 88 clerics that elects the supreme leader of Iran. in case of vacancy.
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In power since 2021, Raisi died at the age of 63 when the helicopter that was taking him to the northwestern city of Tabriz crashed. after inaugurating with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, a dam on the border.
The accident caused the death of the eight occupants of the aircraft, including Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who was buried this Thursday south of Tehran.
After the death was publicly announced on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei declared five days of national mourning and appointed Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as interim president until elections are held on June 28.
On Wednesday, A gigantic crowd had filled the center of Tehran to pay tribute to the president, celebrated as a “martyr” after his death.
In the afternoon, a tribute ceremony took place, attended by leaders from other Middle Eastern countries.from North Africa and Asia, including the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, and the Qatari emir, Tamim ben Hamad al Thani.
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Proof of the tense relations between Tehran and the West, no country from the European Union was represented in the around 60 international delegations present in the Iranian capital.
In Tehran, several ambassadors attended a tribute ceremony for Amir Abdollahian this Thursday morning, before he was buried at the shrine of Shah Abdolazim, in the city of Rey.
They talked about “the political, social and military situation in Gaza”, where Israel fights the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas within the framework of a war that began on October 7, and “the fight until the complete victory of the Palestinian resistance with the participation of all the groups of the resistance axis” of the region.
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