Eight people, including Iran's late President Ibrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash last Sunday. Now preparations have been made to perform the funeral at the most famous place of Shia Muslims in Iran. Therefore, Ibrahim Raisi's funeral will be held at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad. (Suprade Khak). After Raisi's death, processions were taken out in most parts of Iran. Iran's Foreign Minister and six others also died in the accident. However, there was not so much crowd at his funeral. As there was a huge crowd at the funeral of Revolutionary Guard General Qassim Soleimani after his death in a US drone attack in Baghdad in 2020. Raisi's funeral was full of public emotion.
Ibrahim Raisi's tough stance in Iran
In the country of Iran, President Ibrahim Resi's government took a tough action on the demonstrations that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2020. There was an outcry among the people. The proceedings after Amin was detained for allegedly not wearing a hijab, which is mandatory for women in Iran, were not shown on local TV and newspapers there. Not only this, Resi's involvement in the mass murder of about five thousand people in the Iran-Iraq war has also not been discussed.
The public was cautioned
In particular, officials were warned against using public signs to express joy over Ebrahim Raisi's death. Heavy security forces had to be deployed in Tehran. Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in black lined the main streets of Raisi's hometown of Birjand in Iran's southern Khorasan province near the Afghan border on Thursday morning. His coffin was placed in a vehicle on the street. And mourners were coming forward to touch the coffin. Raisi's funeral will be held at the Emar Reza shrine. Where the eighth Imam of the Shias was buried. The area has long been a religious site for Shia Muslims.