Ebrahim Raisi

The bodies of Raisi and two of his companions arrived at Shahid Kaveh International Airport in Birjand, South Khorasan Province, on Thursday morning with the welcome of members of the government delegation

President Raisi was returning from a ceremony to open a dam on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan when his helicopter crashed upon landing in Varzaqan region on Sunday. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Governor