Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads prayers in capital city days after death of Ebrahim Raisi and seven others in helicopter crash
Amid chaotic crowd scenes, the coffins of those killed in the crash were shown to people gathered for the funeral.Amid chaotic crowd scenes, the coffins of those killed in the crash were shown to people gathered for the funeral., whose death in a helicopter crash on a fog shrouded mountain on Sunday has opened up a potentially volatile moment in Iranian politics.
Chants of ‘“death to Israel” were heard from the loyalist crowd as the coffins, draped in the Iranian flag, were taken through the capital as part of five days of national mourning. Haniyeh relayed to Khamenei that he told Iran’s late foreign minister, Amir-Abdollahian, that he was regarded as the foreign minister for the resistance. Haniyeh also addressed the crowd.
Speculation about the cause of the helicopter crash continued. In a lengthy account, Gholam Hossein Esmaili, who travelled in one of the two other helicopters in Raisi’s entourage, told state TV that weather had been fine when the aircraft took off. But Raisi’s helicopter disappeared into heavy clouds and the others couldn’t reach the aircraft by radio, forcing them to land at a nearby copper mine.
The other two helicopters had risen above the cloud relatively quickly. On realising that Raisi’s helicopter was not with them they turned back to search for him, but found nothing. It remains unclear if there was engine failure or pilot error in the murky conditions.Chants of ‘death to Israel’ were heard from the crowd as the coffins, draped in the Iranian flag, were taken through the capital.
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