Tehran: “Great sorrow” Aljazeera live report on funeral ceremony of the deceased Iranian President.
In a video report, Al Jazeera TV channel covered the funeral ceremony of Ayatollah Seyed Ibrahim Raisi, the President of Iran, and his entourage, who were martyred in a helicopter crash.
The funeral ceremony of martyrs of service, martyr Ayatollah Raisi and his companions started today at 7:30 in the morning at Tehran University. The supreme leader of the revolution offered prayers on the bodies of the martyrs at 9 am. The bodies of the martyrs are being buried from Tehran University Mosque towards Azadi Square.
Ayatollah Seyed Ibrahim Raisi was martyred in the helicopter crash on Sunday evening. Raisi had traveled to East Azarbaijan to open the “Qiz Qalasi” border dam, and the helicopter carrying him and his companions had an accident on the way back in the “Dizmar Forest” in the general area between Varzeghan and Jolfa in East Azarbaijan province.
Ayatollah Al-Hashem, Friday Imam of Tabriz, Hossein AmirAbdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malik Rahmati, Governor of East Azerbaijan and several other people accompanying the President in this helicopter are among the martyrs of this accident.
