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Iran readies to bury late president, foreign minister and helicopter crash victims

The Associated Press
Iran readies to bury late president, foreign minister and helicopter crash victims

The Associated Press

Jon Gambrell

Published May 23, 2024 • 3 minute read

In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, people mourn in a funeral ceremony of President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in a mountainous region of the country's northwest, in the city of Tabriz, Iran, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, people mourn in a funeral ceremony of President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in a mountainous region of the country’s northwest, in the city of Tabriz, Iran, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Thursday prepared to inter its late president at the holiest site for Shiite Muslims in the Islamic Republic, a final sign of respect for a protege of Iran’s supreme leader killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week.

President Ebrahim Raisi’s burial at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad caps days of processionals through much of Iran, seeking to bolster the country’s theocracy after the crash killing him, the country’s foreign minister and six others.

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