The Leader of the Revolution and the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, led prayers over the bodies of the martyrs at the University of Tehran before a funeral procession in the city.
According to the IRNA agency, more than 40 high-ranking foreign delegations will participate this Wednesday afternoon in the ceremony of honors for President Raisi and his companions who died in the helicopter accident on May 19 in the northwest of the nation.
Among those attending, approximately 10 delegations are represented at the level of heads of state, almost 20 will be headed by ministers, presidents of Parliament and special envoys, the publication stated.
In offering his condolences, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, recalled Raisi’s words in their meeting during the last month of Ramadan when he reaffirmed that “the Palestinian cause is at the center of the nation’s causes, and “resistance is a strategic option for the liberation project.”
From the University of Tehran, Haniyeh indicated that President Raisi emphasized the Islamic Republic’s support for the Resistance until the aspirations of the Palestinian people and the nation are achieved.
At the same time, he stressed that Al-Aqsa’s Operation Deluge represented an earthquake that hit the Zionist entity and caused a historic transformation worldwide.
The bodies of Raisi, Abdollahian and their companions arrived at the Imam Khomeini Chapel in Tehran, the capital’s great prayer hall.
Millions of Iranians expressed their sadness yesterday in a solemn public procession in Qom, which included stops at the Fatima al-Masuma mausoleum and a journey through the streets until reaching the Jamkaran mosque.
The city of Tabriz, capital of the province of East Azerbaijan, received the bodies, at the beginning of the farewell to the martyrs of the Islamic Republic.
Tomorrow, the people of South Khorasan will say a final farewell to the Iranian leaders in the town of Biryand and the funeral and burial ceremony of President Raisi’s body will be in the city of Mashhad.
President Raisi, Minister Abdollahian, the governor of East Azerbaijan, Malek Rahmati and the imam of Friday prayers of Tabriz (provincial capital) Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem were returning on Sunday from an inauguration ceremony for a dam on the border of Iran with Azerbaijan when their helicopter crashed in mountainous areas in the Varzaghan region.
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