{"id":57007,"date":"2024-05-23T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/iran-prepares-to-bury-president-raisi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:01:18","slug":"iran-prepares-to-bury-president-raisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/iran-prepares-to-bury-president-raisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Prepares to Bury President Raisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/22\/multimedia\/23iran\/22iran-new-vbqw-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Iran Prepares to Bury President Raisi\" title=\"Iran Prepares to Bury President Raisi\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran\u2019s president will be laid to rest in his hometown on Thursday, capping days of funeral observances after his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/europe\/iran-crash-what-we-know.html\" title=\"\">death in a helicopter crash<\/a> left the country without one of its highest-profile leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The deceased president, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/middleeast\/ebrahim-raisi-iran-dead.html\" title=\"\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, will be buried at the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, one of the holiest sites of Shiite Islam. Before that, his body was flown from Tehran, the capital, to the eastern city of Birjand for a funeral procession. Photos and videos posted by the state news media showed a smaller crowd in Birjand compared with the tens of thousands who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/21\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-raisi-funeral.html\" title=\"\">thronged the streets of Tehran a day earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced five days of mourning after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/19\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Raisi<\/a>, 63, and the country\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-foreign-minister-amir-abdollahian.html\" title=\"\">foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian<\/a>, 60, died along with five others when their helicopter plunged into a mountainous area near the Iranian city of Jolfa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ayatollah Khamenei led funeral prayers on Wednesday for Mr. Raisi and the other victims of the crash before the coffins were driven through the packed streets of Tehran in a large-scale procession. An array of foreign dignitaries \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/22\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-raisi-funeral.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">including the leaders of two Iran-backed militant groups<\/a>, Hamas and Hezbollah \u2014 also came to pay their respects. Several had private sit-downs with the supreme leader, who that night visited Mr. Raisi\u2019s family at their home, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.irna.ir\/news\/85486537\/Supreme-Leader-meets-martyred-president-s-family-members\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the state news media.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Iranian authorities have sought to project stability since the crash, emphasizing that the governing of the country will not be affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A hard-line cleric who came of age during the country\u2019s Islamic revolution, Mr. Raisi was viewed as a potential <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/europe\/raisi-iran-instability.html\" title=\"\">successor to Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a>, 85. His death requires new <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/21\/world\/middleeast\/iran-election-president-death-ayatollah.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">presidential elections<\/a> \u2014 which the authorities have set for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.irna.ir\/news\/85484335\/Iran-s-presidential-election-slated-for-June-28\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">June 28<\/a> \u2014 and could also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-raisi-death-supreme-leader.html#:~:text=After%20Raisi's%20Death%2C%20Speculation%20Over%20Succession%20Turns%20to%20Ayatollah's%20Son,ties%20within%20the%20security%20apparatus.&amp;text=He%20is%20known%20as%20a%20man%20in%20the%20shadows%20of%20Iranian%20politics.\" title=\"\">shift the dynamics<\/a> around the selection of Ayatollah Khamenei\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday morning, Mr. Raisi\u2019s family flew to Mashhad before his burial, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.irna.ir\/news\/85486893\/Martyr-President-Raisi-s-family-members-arrive-in-Mashhad\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">state news agency reported<\/a>. It said that Iran\u2019s interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, had also arrived in the holy city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A separate ceremony was taking place in Tehran for Mr. Amir Abdollahian. He will be buried in the city on Thursday after a ceremony at the foreign ministry, according to the state news media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/23\/world\/middleeast\/iran-president-raisi-burial.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s president will be laid to rest in his hometown on Thursday, capping days of funeral observances after his death in a helicopter crash left the country without one of its highest-profile leaders. The deceased president, Ebrahim Raisi, will be buried at the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/22\/multimedia\/23iran\/22iran-new-vbqw-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55886,19606,20071,2627,53682],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57009,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007\/revisions\/57009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}