(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 21. President of IranEbrahim Raisi will be buried at the Imam Reza Mausoleum in Mashhad,according to the committee organizing the funeral ceremony forRaisi and his accompanying officials, who died in a helicoptercrash, Trend reports.
Today, at 09:30 (GMT +7) in Tabriz city (East AzerbaijanProvince in northwestern Iran), a farewell ceremony will take placefrom Shohada Square to Mosalla.
At 16:00, in Qom Province, located in northern Iran, a farewellceremony will be held at the shrine.
At 21:00, at Imam Khomeini's worship site in Tehran, a farewellceremony will be organized.
On May 22, a farewell ceremony for the President of Iran withthe participation of high-ranking foreign delegations will takeplace in Tehran.
On May 23, in South Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran, at8:00 local time, a farewell ceremony for the President of Iran willtake place.
At 12:00 on May 23, in the city of Mashhad, Khorasan RazaviProvince, in northeastern Iran, a farewell ceremony and funeralwill be held at the Imam Reza mausoleum.
To note, on May 19, a helicopter carrying Iranian PresidentEbrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, TabrizProvince Imam Ayatollah Ali Hashim, and East Azerbaijan ProvinceGovernor-General Malek Rahmati crashed while flying from Khudafarinto Tabriz.
Following the crash, communication with the helicopter crew wasestablished twice, but it was subsequently lost.
The Iranian President and the entire accompanying delegationwere confirmed dead.
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