2024-05-24 10:04:14
Tons of of 1000’s of individuals went to his hometown of Mashhad to say goodbye to Raisi earlier than his funeral. Processions had been additionally held within the cities of Tabriz, Como, Tehran and Birzhand.
Raisi, 63, was killed on Sunday together with the international minister and 6 others when their helicopter crashed within the nation’s mountainous northwest as they had been coming back from a dam opening ceremony on the border with Azerbaijan.
The official information company IRNA reported that representatives of some 60 nations attended the ceremony to honor Raisi on Wednesday, together with Tunisian President Kais Saied and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
The ceremony was not attended by European Union nations, and a few non-EU nations, together with Belarus and Serbia, despatched their representatives.
Leaders of the Iranian-led “Axis of Resistance” regional militant teams additionally attended the funeral within the Islamic Republic.
They included Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Palestinian group Hamas’ political workplace in Qatar, senior members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah motion and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in addition to representatives of Islamic Jihad and Iraqi militant teams.
In the course of the funeral, they met with the pinnacle of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Basic Hossein Salam, and Esmail Qaani, head of the Quds Pressure, the guard’s international operations unit, to debate the continued conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
After 5 days of nationwide mourning, Iranian authorities, together with appearing president Mohammad Mokhber, will give attention to organizing a brand new presidential election. Elections can be held on June 28.
2024-05-24 10:04:14