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Several funeral ceremonies are taking place in Iran on May 21 to mark the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and others in a helicopter crash, as five days of mourning were announced by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In Tabriz, the capital of Iran’s northwestern province of East Azerbaijan where the crash occurred on May 19, thousands of people turned out for a funeral procession in memory of those killed.

Meanwhile, the IRNA state-run news agency posted the first footage purportedly showing the coffins of Raisi and Amir-Abdollahian on X, formerly Twitter.

Several other funeral ceremonies for Raisi have been scheduled by Iranian authorities. A funeral ceremony is scheduled for the afternoon in the city of Qom. Other ceremonies are to be held in Tehran and Birjand on May 22 and 23, when Raisi will be buried at the Imam Reza Shrine in the holy city …