Ceremonies continue to bid farewell to President Ebrahim Raisi in Iran

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In Iran, funeral ceremonies continue to be held for the remains of Government President Ebrahim Raisi and other political leaders, who lost their lives in a helicopter crash on May 19 in the northwest region of the country. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 In Tehran, funeral ceremonies continue to be held for the remains of government president

00:04 Ebrahim Raisi and other political leaders who lost their lives in a helicopter crash

00:08 on May 19 in the northwest region of the country.

00:12 The acts to honour the national leader started on Tuesday in the city of Tabriz, where the

00:17 citizens had the opportunity to farewell the head of state and his partners.

00:21 The presidential plane transferred the body of the Iranian leaders to Tehran to continue

00:26 with the funeral prayers and ceremonies.

00:28 The remains of the Iranian president and his comrades arrived in the city of Qom, where

00:33 tributes will be paid at the holy shrine of Haratz Fatima Masum and at the holy mosque

00:39 of Jamkaran.

00:40 Likewise, the next commemorations will take place on Thursday in Biljand and then in the

00:45 city of Mashhad, where the head of state Ebrahim Raisi will be buried, since this is his hometown.

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