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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is laid to rest after a funeral ceremony.MASHHAD – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is laid to rest in Mashad during funeral ceremony.
TEHRAN Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei performs prayer for victims of helicopter crash that killed Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads the Islamic funeral prayer in front of the caskets of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's late president, Hossein Amirabdollahian, late foreign minister and six others who were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. A funeral procession will follow after the prayers.
Large crowds of Iranians are expected to gather in Tehran on Wednesday to pay tribute to late president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will lead prayers ahead of funeral processions for Raisi and seven members of his entourage, including foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Iranians have gathered in Tabriz, the capital of the East Azerbaijan province, to mourn at a farewell procession for President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and six other people in the helicopter, including crew members, were also killed in the crash.
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of mourners, waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, set out from a central square in the northwestern city where Raisi was headed when his helicopter crashed.
Reporting from the capital, Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar said on Tuesday that funeral ceremonies for Iranian state dignitaries occur over “an extended period of time in several locations”.
After the procession in Tabriz, the bodies of Raisi, 63 and Amirabdollahian, 60, will be transferred to Tehran for another ceremony.
On Wednesday, a larger ceremony will take place in Tehran, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expected to lead the prayers and foreign dignitaries in attendance.
Raisi’s body will then be taken to Mashhad, the country’s second largest city located in the northeast, where he had been born and raised.

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