Iran’s supreme chief led tens of thousands in mourning at a grand funeral in the money, Tehran, on Wednesday for the country’s late president, overseas minister and other folks killed in a helicopter crash.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held the service at Tehran College, the caskets of the useless draped in Iranian flags with their photographs on them. On the late President Ebrahim Raisi’s coffin sat a black turban — signifying his immediate descendance from Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
“Oh Allah, we did not see anything at all but very good from him,” Khamenei stated in the regular prayer for the lifeless in Arabic, the language of Islam’s holy book, the Quran. He soon remaining and the crowd within rushed to the entrance, reaching out to touch the coffins. Iran’s acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, stood close by and brazenly wept in the course of the support.
Individuals then carried the coffins out on their shoulders, with chants outside of “Death to America!” They loaded them on to a semitruck trailer for a procession via downtown Tehran to Azadi, or “Freedom,” Sq., in which Raisi gave speeches in the previous.
It followed somber but muted ceremonies Tuesday in the cities of Tabriz and Qom.
In attendance ended up major leaders of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a person of the country’s important ability centers.
Also on hand was Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, the militant group that Iran has armed and supported through the ongoing Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip. Naim Qassem, the second in command of Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group backed by Iran, is also anticipated to be there.
Also expected to attend expert services in Tehran are foreign delegates together with officers from Iraq, Pakistan, Qatar, Afghanistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Iran’s near ally, Russia, also sent the speaker of the point out Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin. Chinese media reported Wednesday that Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing would also show up at.
Before the funeral, Haniyeh spoke and an emcee led the crowd in the chant: “Death to Israel!”
“I come in the identify of the Palestinian people today, in the title of the resistance factions of Gaza … to specific our condolences,” Haniyeh instructed those collected.
He also recounted conference Raisi in Tehran all through Ramadan, the holy Muslim fasting month, and read the president say the Palestinian difficulty stays the critical one particular of the Muslim earth.
The Muslim entire world “must fulfil their obligations to the Palestinians to liberate their land,” Haniyeh mentioned, recounting Raisi’s words. He also described Raisi calling the Oct. 7 assault that sparked the war, which observed 1,200 individuals killed and 250 other folks taken hostage, an “earthquake in the coronary heart of the Zionist entity.” The war because has observed 35,000 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip and hundreds of other people in the West Lender in Israeli operations.
