Tens of hundreds collect for Raisi funeral procession in Tehran – Bd24live

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Tens of hundreds of Iranians flocked to the streets of Tehran Wednesday to hitch the funeral processions of president Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

Within the centre of town, folks holding portraits of Raisi gathered in and across the College of Tehran, the place Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is because of lead prayers for Raisi and his companions, together with international minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Raisi’s helicopter crashed Sunday on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran on the best way to town of Tabriz after the group attended the inauguration of a dam venture on the border with Azerbaijan.

An enormous search and rescue operation was launched, involving assist from Turkey, Russia and the European Union. State tv introduced Raisi’s loss of life early on Monday.

Raisi, who was broadly anticipated to succeed Khamenei as supreme chief, was 63.

Within the capital, large banners have gone up hailing the late president as “the martyr of service”, whereas others bade “farewell to the servant of the deprived”.

Tehran residents obtained cellphone messages urging them to “attend the funeral of the martyr of service”.

The processions, which shall be attended by international dignitaries, are deliberate to set off from the college and head to the huge Enghelab Sq. within the metropolis centre, in accordance with state media.

– Burial in Mashhad –

Funeral rites for the late president and his entourage started on Tuesday with tens of hundreds of black-clad mourners in attendance within the metropolis of Tabriz and the Shiite clerical centre of Qom.

From Tehran, the our bodies shall be moved to South Khorasan province earlier than being transferred to Raisi’s house metropolis of Mashhad within the northeast, the place he shall be buried on Thursday night after funeral rites on the Imam Reza shrine.

Khamenei, who wields final authority in Iran, has declared 5 days of nationwide mourning and assigned vice chairman Mohammad Mokhber, 68, as caretaker president till the June 28 election for Raisi’s successor.

Iran’s prime nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri, who was Amir-Abdollahian’s deputy, has been named performing international minister.

The nation’s armed forces chief of workers Mohammad Bagheri has ordered an investigation into the reason for the helicopter crash.

Raisi was elected president in 2021, succeeding the reasonable Hassan Rouhani at a time when the financial system was battered by US sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear actions.

The ultra-conservative’s time in workplace noticed mass protests, a deepening financial disaster and unprecedented armed exchanges with arch-enemy Israel.

After his loss of life, international allies Russia and China and regional powers voiced their condolences, as did NATO, whereas the UN Safety Council noticed a minute of silence.

Messages of condolence additionally flooded in from Iran’s allies across the area, together with Syria, Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, each of that are backed by Tehran.