The funeral ceremony came hours after hundreds of thousands of people took part in a funeral procession in the Iranian capital for Raisi and others killed in Sunday’s crash, Iranian media reported.
Acting President Mohammad Mokhber, Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and other officials received the foreign guests.
Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov attended the funeral ceremony.
Tunisian President Kais Saied, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the parliament speakers of Lebanon, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Mali, Russia and Uzbekistan also attended the farewell ceremony and expressed their honour.
Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, and Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan also attended the ceremony.
Foreign ministers of Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela and Jordan also came to the ceremony.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh also took part in the ceremony and held a meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the sidelines of the funeral ceremony.
Raisi, Amir-Abdollahian and others died when their helicopter crashed in northwestern Iran on Sunday due to bad weather conditions.
Authorities have ordered an investigation into the cause of the crash.
Raisi will be airlifted to the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday morning and buried at the Imam Reza shrine, where he served as custodian from 2016 to 2019. Amir-Abdollahian’s funeral will take place at the tomb of Shah Abdul-Azim in south Tehran on Thursday morning, in accordance with his family’s wishes.
