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Thousands of mourners fill the streets of Mashhad for funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi, with his burial set for gold-domed Imam Reza shrine, Iran's holiest Islamic site

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest on Thursday, concluding days of funeral rites attended by throngs of mourners after his death in a helicopter crash, state media reported.Hundreds of thousands marched in his home town Mashhad to bid farewell to Raisi ahead of his burial following processions in the cities of Tabriz, Qom, Tehran and Birjand.The 63-year-old died on Sunday alongside his foreign minister and six others after their helicopter went down in the country's mountainous northwest while returning from a dam inauguration on the border with Azerbaijan.

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Iranian Jews in the diaspora this week have been celebrating the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose long record of human rights abuses, Holocaust denial, and calls for Israel's destruction have earned him infamy among Jewish communities worldwide. Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and several others died on Sunday in a helicopter crash

Iran interred late president Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation on Thursday, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him along with […]