Iran’s Supreme Leader Presides Over Funeral Of Late Prez

Millions of mourners flocked to a funeral procession in Tehran yesterday for the country’s late president, foreign minister, and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led a prayer ceremony in front of the victim’s coffins. The procession then made its way from Tehran University towards Freedom Square along crowded streets filled with mourners.

Raisi, Foreign Minister



Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of northwestern Iran on Sunday.  

Funeral ceremony was attended by numerous high-ranking political and military representatives, as well as foreign dignitaries.

Raisi is to be buried in his home town of Mashhad today at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth imam of Shia Islam.