Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi, who passed away in a helicopter crash at the weekend, was put to rest in his home city of Mashhad on Thursday.
Raisi was buried beside the mausoleum of the 8th Shiite Imam Reza in Mashhad, state broadcaster IRIB reported. It is thought about the most crucial Shia shrine in Iran.
3 million individuals participated in the funeral event in Mashhad, according to the state news firm IRNA. There were no independent price quotes.
Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and 7 other residents were eliminated in a helicopter crash in the north-west of the nation on Sunday. Amirabdollahian was buried in the capital Tehran on Thursday.
Prior to this, there was another state-organized funeral service for the president in his home area of Khorasan, where 10s of thousands participated.
The provincial capital of Birjand was selected as the penultimate stop of the funeral events due to the fact that Raisi had an unique relationship with the city, discussed Vice President Mohsen Mansouri. Raisi likewise represented Birjand on the Council of Specialists, a prominent clerical body in Iran.
