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Thousands of Iranians came out on the streets to mark the funeral processions of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, Mashhad, and Tabriz, after he died in a helicopter crash alongside the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian. During these processions, huge banners were put up naming Raisi as “the martyr of…

President Ebrahim Raisi died on Sunday in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border.

Late president’s body will be taken from Tehran to his hometown Mashhad, where he will be buried.

The caretaker foreign minister’s name has been heavily involved in Iran’s nuclear programme negotiations over the years.

Tara Kangarlou, global affairs journalist, author of "The Heartbeat of Iran" and adjunct professor at Georgetown University speaks to FRANCE 24's Mark Owen. She says that the Islamic regime in Iran is a system in which presidents and officials are replaceable. She adds that the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi…

Iranians are observing the second of five days of public mourning announced by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranians gathered on Tuesday to mourn at the funerary procession of president Ebrahim Raisi in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province where he died unexpectedly in a helicopter crash.

Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered Tuesday to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others who were killed in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountainside in the northwest. Iranian authorities have declared five days of national mourning, with a funeral procession planned for Tehran on Wednesday.

President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash in poor weather.