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The remains of late president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi,was yesterday buried in his home city of Mashhad in the country.
Raisi was laid to rest in the holy shrine of Imam Reza, a revered figure in Shia Islam on Thursday.
A large crowd gathered in city of Mashhad to witness the burial of the 63-year-old hard-line cleric.
It would be recalled that that seven people died alongside Raisi in an helicopter crash on Sunday due to bad weather in Iran’s mountainous north-west.
They include Raisi’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, 60, who was buried on Thursday at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a southern suburb of the capital Tehran.
Acting President Mohammad Mokhber, who will serve until an election is held on 28 June, was present there to make preparations for the burial.
State media described Thursday’s event as “historic”, while Mashhad’s mayor was quoted as saying that “three million mourners” had attended – a figure almost equal to the city’s entire population.
