The ceremonies for her funeral of the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raishi, who was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, will start today from the northwestern city of Tabriz, the official Irna news agency announced. The funeral procession for the president and the persons who accompanied him on his trip will take place in the morning at 9.30 (local time, 08.00 Greek time) in Tabriz and then the bodies will be transferred to Tehran, where the ceremonies will continue, the agency said. .
Iran is in mourning
The Iran remains mired in mourning. On Monday morning, Tehran woke up numb with the prayers of citizens covering the atmosphere.
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According to a first investigation by the Turkish rescue teams, the Bell 212 helicopter that carried the president of Iran either did not have a transponder or it was disabled. As the Turkish Minister of Transport, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, told reporters, the fatal helicopter “did not have the signal detection system activated or did not have such a system.”
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Investigations into the causes of the tragedy
From the first moment, Tehran reportedly attributes the accident to adverse weather conditions whileas it later became known, a memorandum called on the Iranian government to purchase two Russian helicopters for the country’s leadership amid intense concern over the inability to maintain its aging helicopter fleet.
A research team has already reached the breaking point and is expected to consider the exact causes of the tragedy. It will primarily examine whether the necessary weather checks were made before the green light to operate the flight. So far there have been no charges of sabotage and the other two helicopters in the convoy landed safely.
For his part, Iran’s former foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, blamed the US sanctions which make it difficult to buy and supply spare parts, stressing that the helicopter crash “will go on the list of American crimes once morest the Iranian nation.”
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Recall that Iran’s supreme leader also declared five days of national mourning in the country for the death of the president and seven other people, including the country’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, when the helicopter they were on crashed on Sunday in the northwest of the country.
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