Tears, mixt reactions engulfed thousands of Iranian people who turned up to pay last respect to the late President Ibrahim Raisi and others killed in helicopter crash on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n President Raisi perished alongside with other officials including Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Malik Rahmati, governor of Iran\u2019s 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\u2019s guard team and others suffered a hard landing on Sunday while returning from Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tragic incident happened in Dizmar forest, located between the cities of Varzaqan and Jolfa in East Azerbaijan province, where the aircraft had a \u201crough landing\u201d in heavy fog<\/p>\n\n\n\n The funeral service that took place at Tehran University, was presided over by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his few words ,Khamenei said \u201cOh Allah, we didn\u2019t see anything but good from him,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said in the standard prayer for the dead in Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iran\u2019s acting president, Mohammad Mokhber, stood nearby and openly wept during the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People then carried the coffins out on their shoulders, with chants of \u201cDeath to America\u201d heard outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They loaded them onto a trailer for a procession through downtown Tehran to Azadi Square, where Raisi gave speeches in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In attendance were top leaders of Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, one of the country\u2019s major power centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Tehran Thousands of people from different City marched through the streets of the Tehran, shops and others business were closed as the Country mourns their leaders<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transportation were free of charge either using a bus or train to whoever want to go and pay the last respect all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the Burial arrangement<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the burial arraignment, Raisi’s body and others started in City of Tabriz where the incident happened, then proceeded to the Holy City of Qom <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today Wednesday, the body was at Tehran University for funeral service and then Azade Tower where hundreds of people paid last respect to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cause of the crash<\/p>\n\n\n\n The helicopter involved in the Crash on Sunday was a Bell 212, a two-blade aircraft capable of carrying 15 people. However, the two remaining choppers accompanying the president\u2019s helicopter made a safe return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Ramadhan Abbey Tehran Tears, mixt reactions engulfed thousands of Iranian people who turned up to pay last respect to the late President Ibrahim Raisi and others killed in helicopter crash on Sunday. 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