President Ebrahim Raisi passed away on Sunday, in addition to the foreign minister, after his helicopter crashed near the Azerbaijan border.
Thousands have actually marched in Iran for the last day of funeral rites for President Ebrahim Raisi, who passed away in a helicopter crash previously today.
Raisi, 63, passed away on Sunday together with his foreign minister and 6 others when their helicopter crashed in the nation’s mountainous northwest while returning from a dam inauguration.
Countless individuals, holding placards of Raisi and waving flags, marched in the eastern city of Birjand on Thursday early morning to bid him goodbye.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who revealed 5 days of grieving for those who passed away in the crash, led prayers in Tehran on Wednesday for Raisi’s funeral service.
Raisi will be put to rest at the holy shrine of Imam Reza, a mausoleum in the city of Mashhad, where the ultraconservative president was born.
He will end up being the very first leading political leader in the nation to be buried at the shrine, representing a considerable honour for the previous leader.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will likewise be buried on Thursday at the shrine of Shah Abdol-Azim in the town of Shahr-e Rey.
Iranian authorities and foreign dignitaries paid their aspects to the late diplomat at a Tehran event before the burial.
Raisi’s death comes at a time of intensifying pressure in between the clerical management and more comprehensive society, worsened by tightening up political and social controls.
Vice President Mohammad Mokhber took control of as caretaker president on Monday, while Ali Bagheri Kani was selected acting foreign minister up until the June 28 election.
Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm, a senior diplomacy expert, informed Al Jazeera from Tehran that individuals in Iran are feeling a sense of “unity” following Raisi’s death.
He included that Iran’s diplomacy technique would not alter following Amirabdollahian’s death which his replacement would be anticipated to reach the very same diplomatic knowledge.
“Of course, it will be tough for the next foreign minister due to the fact that Amirabdollahian shown to be [a] yardstick and everybody will compare [with him],” Khoshcheshm stated. “He [the next foreign minister] requirements to likewise be an extremely industrious, working foreign minister, whoever it will be.”
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reporting from Tehran, likewise stated the Iranian facility wished to form “parallel lives”, with Iranians grieving for Raisi while preparing yourself for an election, which had actually not been anticipated till next year.
“The main point here is the facility does not desire the sensation of unpredictability to control and, naturally, [cause] a vacuum. Iranians are really delicate to vacuums, and that’s why we’re seeing them revealing elections in less than the 50-day duration– it’s going to be in a month and a couple of days.
“Given the election is on the method, the days coming will witness the registration of candidateships. Individuals naturally are distributing names, specifically from the conservative camp,” Hashem stated.
Throughout the presidency of Raisi, who was chosen in 2021, the nation saw mass demonstrations, a deepening recession and extraordinary armed exchange with Israel.
Before his death, Raisi was likewise commonly anticipated to be successful Ayatollah Khamenei.
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