Ramadhan Abbey
Tehran
Iranians across the Country have officially started mourning their beloved President Ebrahim Raisi and others who were killed in the helicopter crash.
President Raisi was killed along with other officials including Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, Malik Rahmati, governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-Hashem, representative of the Iranian supreme leader to East Azerbaijan and Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, head of Raisi’s guard team and others suffered a hard landing on Sunday while returning from Azerbaijan
The tragic incident happened in Dizmar forest, located between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa in East Azerbaijan province, where the aircraft had a “rough landing” in heavy fog
Raisi 63 was from a state a visit with the Azerbaijani president to discuss an infrastructure project over the Aras River, which separates Iran and Nakhchivan
On Tuesday morning, the procession led by a Semi-Rruck carrying the caskets of the dead slowly moved through the narrow streets of downtown Tabriz.
Hundreds of Iranian people wearing black stormed the street and walked beside the coffins, some throwing flowers up to them as an emcee wept through a loudspeaker for men he described as martyrs.
According to the burial arraignment, Raisi’s body and others started in the City of Tabriz where the incident happened then proceeded to the Holy City of Qom .
Tomorrow Wednesday, the body will be in Tehran (Imam Khomeini Mosque) and the funeral service will be presided over by the Iranian Supreme leader Khamenei who will also join in a procession as well.
The president’s body will be buried at the Imam Reza shrine in the holy city of Mashhad on Thursday, the only imam of the Shiite faith buried in Iran.
Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajai, the only other president to die in office when he was killed in a 1981 bombing, was buried in Tehran.
Cause of the crass
The helicopter involved in the Crash on Sunday was a Bell 212, a two-blade aircraft capable of carrying 15 people. However, the two choppers accompanying the president’s helicopter made a safe return.
Along with Iran, the Azerbaijan government is also conducting an investigation at the crash site to examine if weather checks were made before the decision to fly was taken. So far, there have been no serious allegations of sabotage and still weather is considered as the main villain.
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