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Iran’s Khamenei leads prayers at Raisi memorial before tens of thousands
Al Jazeera
Late president’s body will be taken from Tehran to his hometown Mashhad, where he will be buried.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led prayers at a memorial ceremony for late President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash.
“Oh Allah, we didn’t see anything but good from him,” said Khamenei on Wednesday, paying tribute to Raisi at the University of Tehran before crowds of tens of thousands, who proceeded to walk from Enghelab (Revolution) Square to Azadi (Freedom) Square.
The caskets of Raisi, who was 63, and the seven others who died in the crash on Sunday, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, were draped in Iranian flags with their pictures on them.
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar, reporting from Freedom Square, said there was tight security in the area.