Tens of thousands mourned Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday after his death in a helicopter crash, amid political uncertainty ahead of an election for his successor next month.
Raisi and seven members of his entourage including foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were killed when their aircraft came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran on Sunday.
Waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, mourners marched from a central square in the northwestern city of Tabriz, where Raisi’s helicopter had been headed when it crashed.
