The leader paid a visit to the late president’s home on Wednesday night, meeting with his family members. The Leader had earlier today held Raeisi's grandchildren in his arms at the start of the funeral ceremony at Tehran University campus.
On Wednesday morning, Ayatollah Khamenei led funeral prayers for president Raeisi and his entourage including foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran.
Also today, dignitaries from a 68 countries, according to the Iranian TV, attended funeral ceremony in Tehran to pay tribute to the late president and his entourage.
Raeisi and Amir-Abdollahian, along with two top officials of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, and four other people on board the helicopter were returning from a dam inauguration ceremony on Iran’s border with the Republic of Azerbaijan when the aircraft crashed into forests in Varzaqan region.
MNA
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