Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in black crowded Shi’ite site of pilgrimage in city of Mashhad
Mourners gather for the funeral procession of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, and two other officials killed in a recent helicopter crash. Photograph: Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran via Getty Imagesinterred late president Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shi’ite shrine in the nation on Thursday, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him along with the country’s foreign minister and six others.
‘Our plan and our priorities are working’: Rishi Sunak limbers up for UK election campaign centred on economyEuropean election ‘leaders’ debate likely to be less politically tense than Eurovision Iranian mourners attend Raisi's funeral in Mashhad. Photograph: Hossein Moameri/Fars News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
Raisi, who was 63, had been discussed as a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader, the 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has set June 28th as the next presidential election. For now, there is no clear favourite for the position among Iran’s political elite – particularly no one who is a Shi’ite cleric, like Raisi.
Army members place the coffin of foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on a stage during proceeding. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP)
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