Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, will lead prayers for Raisi and his companions.
Soldiers carry the coffin of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran. / Photo: Reuters
Raisi's helicopter crashed Sunday on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran on the way to the city of Tabriz after t he group attended the inauguration of a dam project on the border with Azerbaijan. The processions, which will be attended by foreign dignitaries, are planned to set off from the university and head to the vast Enghelab Square in the city centre, according to state media.
From Tehran, the bodies will be moved to South Khorasan province before being transferred to Raisi's home city of Mashhad in the northeast, where he will be buried on Thursday evening after funeral rites at the Imam Reza shrine.
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