Iranian officials and regional leaders attended the funeral ceremony for the country's late president Ebrahim Raisi and other victims of a helicopter crash at Tehran's Grand Mosalla Mosque on Wednesday (May 22), Reuters reports.
Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh and Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Kassem were seen among the mourners.
Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border over the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others.
His death came at a time of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large over issues from tightening social and political controls to economic hardship.
Raisi's body was flown from Tabriz, the closest major city to the remote crash site, to Tehran airport before it headed to the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom.
From there, it was returned to the capital to lie at Tehran's Grand Mosalla Mosque before being transferred to his hometown of Mashahd, in eastern Iran, for burial on Thursday (May 23).
