Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi buried in his hometown

Tehran. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died on Sunday in a helicopter accident, was buried on Thursday in his hometown of Mashhad (northeast), after three days of mass funerals.

The funerals introduced collectively big crowds within the custom of the nice occasions which have occurred in Iran for the reason that Islamic revolution of 1979.

Now the authorities, particularly interim president Mohammad Mokhber, 68, will deal with organizing the presidential elections scheduled for June 28.

In the intervening time nobody has publicly declared their intention to interchange Raisi. The deadline to current candidatures opens on Might 30 and the electoral marketing campaign will begin on June 12.

In Mashhad the gang paraded alongside the avenue that results in the mausoleum of Imam Reza, the principle Shiite shrine in Iran, carrying images of the deceased and white flowers.

The coffin was transported in a truck on which was written: “I’ve come, O king, give me shelter”; a motto by which the “king” refers back to the eighth Shiite imam, Reza.

The town’s mayor, Mohammad Reza Qalandar Sharif, stated three million folks had participated within the procession. Impartial evaluations will not be but obtainable.

In energy since 2021, Raisi died on the age of 63 when the helicopter that was taking him to town of Tabriz, within the northwest, crashed after inaugurating a dam on the border together with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev.

The accident prompted the demise of the eight occupants of the plane, together with Iran’s Overseas Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, who was buried this Thursday south of Tehran.

After the demise was publicly introduced on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei declared 5 days of nationwide mourning and appointed Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as interim president till elections are held on June 28.

The place of Overseas Minister shall be occupied by Ali Bagheri, till now deputy to the chancellor and major negotiator of the Iranian nuclear program.

Anti-Israel assembly

On Wednesday, a big crowd had stuffed the middle of Tehran to pay tribute to the president, celebrated as a “martyr” after his demise.

Within the afternoon, a tribute ceremony came about, attended by leaders from different international locations within the Center East, North Africa and Asia, together with the Tunisian president Kais Saied and the Qatari emir Tamim ben Hamad al Thani.

Proof of the tense relations between Tehran and the West, no nation from the European Union was represented within the round 60 worldwide delegations current within the Iranian capital.

In Tehran, a number of ambassadors attended a tribute ceremony for Amir Abdollahian this Thursday morning, earlier than he was buried on the shrine of Shah Abdolazim, within the metropolis of Rey.

On the sidelines of the ceremonies, representatives of the “axis of resistance” teams in opposition to Israel met, state tv Irib reported. Iran was represented by Normal Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, and Normal Esmail Qaani, commander of the Qods Power.

They talked about “the political, social and navy state of affairs in Gaza”, the place Israel fights the Palestinian Islamist motion Hamas throughout the framework of a conflict that started on October 7, and “the struggle till the entire victory of the Palestinian resistance with the participation of all teams of the resistance axis” of the area.