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The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan who has traveled to Tehran to express condolences over the passing of President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation.
Over 50 delegations of foreign countries are arriving in Iran’s capital Tehran on Wednesday to participate in a ceremony commemorating late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage.
Millions of people packed the streets in the Iranians capital Tehran on Wednesday for the funeral processions of President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who passed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
On Tuesday afternoon, the bodies of the late President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions were carried from the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in the holy city of Qom to the Jamkaran Mosque.
Millions of black-clad mourners gathered on Tuesday in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz for the funeral procession of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and their companions who died Sunday in a helicopter crash while crossing the mountainous terrain in heavy fog.
The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Zionist regime’s Western-backed brutal genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October last year has openly revealed the true nature of the Western human rights.
The Assembly of Experts, a panel of clerics electing Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, convened its first session in Tehran on Tuesday morning.
A large crowd of people participated in ceremony in Tehran’s Vali-e Asr square on Monday to commemorate the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Iran has declared that it would be holding an early presidential election on June 28 following the passing of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, the provincial capital of East Azarbaijan, where Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation lost their lives in a helicopter crash, will host a funeral ceremony on Tuesday.
The Leader the Islamic Revolution of Iran sent a message of condolences on Monday on the tragic death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation in a helicopter crash, appointing first vice president as the caretaker chief executive of the country.
The Iranian cabinet has given assurance to the people that running the county will not be disrupted after President Ebrahim Raisi’s demise in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
After the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a tragic helicopter accident, questions arise on who will be in charge of running the state of affairs in Iran.
Iranian President Ebhrahim Raisi, his entourage and the crew on board the helicopter that crashed on Sunday in northwestern Iran have died, according to initial reports.
“Two of President Raisi's companions have contacted the center following the helicopter accident.”, that’s according to Mohsen Mansouri the executive vice president.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, expressed concerns about the disturbing helicopter crash incident on Sunday evening involving the Iranian president and his companions during a gathering of the families of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.
Huge rallies took place in 10 cities across Iran to pay tribute the 8th Shia Imam Ali Ibn Moussa al-Reza, whose shrine is in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.
Iran’s Jomhouri-e Eslami newspaper has blasted the Iranian government for what it called just standing idly by and watching while the cumbersome extreme inflation is affecting people’s livelihood.
The Iranian parliament voted on Wednesday to include Saturdays as the second official weekend on the country’s calendar, after a heated controversy over choosing between Saturday and Thursday.
Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, in an open letter to the people in Iran, has presented a report on the reasons put forward by the country’s vetting body, the Guardian Council, for disqualifying him as a candidate for the Assembly of Experts elections held earlier this year.
Iran’s Elections Headquarters announced on Saturday the final list of the candidates who won the ticket in the runoff stage of the parliamentary elections for the remaining seats up for grabs in the 290-seat assembly.
Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday met with members of the country's Futsal National Team after they won the 2024 AFC Asian Cup.
