Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's Funeral Begins In Tabriz Today, Here's The Series Until Thursday

The funeral procession for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi began in Tabriz. (Source: IRNA/Ali Hamed Haghdost)

JAKARTA - The series of funeral ceremonies for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and all of the victims who died in a helicopter crash began in Tabriz City on Tuesday.

The Iranian government has organized a series of funeral ceremonies for all victims with the peak being the funeral of the late President Raisi, who was once seen as the successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Today, the series begins with prayers and respect in Tabriz City, the largest city in Iran's northwestern mountain area, where a helicopter crash occurred, according to Head of the Cemetery Planning Committee and Vice President of Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri, cited from CNN, May 21.

Still on Tuesday, after Tabriz finished, the bodies of the victims will be moved to the holy city of Shiah Qom, where many Iranian clerics gain knowledge, who form Iran's elite trained. The funeral ceremony in Qom City was held at 16:00 p.m. from the holy place of Hazrat Masoumeh to the Mosque to the Jamkaran Mosque, quoted from IRNA.

From Tabriz, the bodies were brought to Tehran. Farewell to the bodies of the martyrs on Tuesday at 21.00 at the Grand Mosalla Mosque, Tehran.

After that, the funeral prayers of the martyrs and the burial procession with the presence of people in Tehran began on Wednesday morning, from Tehran University to Azadi Square.

Hojjatoleslam Mahmoud Hosseini, director of the local office of the Iranian Islamic Da'wah Organization in Tabriz, said Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would lead the funeral prayers and prayers in Tehran.

The ceremony to honor the martyrs with the presence of high-ranking foreign officials will be held on Wednesday around 16.00.

Separately, the farewell ceremony for people in South Khorasan Province with the body of the late President Raisi was held Thursday starting at 8:00 am in Birjand.

It is planned that the funeral and burial ceremony of the late President Ebrahim Raisi will be held on Thursday afternoon in the holy city of Masyhad.

Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahdidi said today, Iran mourns the death of a loved, popular and humble president.

The Iranian nation mourns the death of a foreign minister who left active diplomacy in the critical moments of resistance as his legacy, Vahidi said.

"We had a bad landing in this regard, but we will rise brilliantly," Vahidi said, quoted from Mehr.