{"id":33174,"date":"2024-05-21T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iran-late-president-raisis-funeral-ceremony-begins\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:00:16","slug":"iran-late-president-raisis-funeral-ceremony-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iran-late-president-raisis-funeral-ceremony-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Late President Raisi\u2019s funeral ceremony begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Funeral ceremonies have begun in Iran for President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sunday\u2019s helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported that thousands of government supporters flocked to the start of the ceremony in the north-western city of Tabriz on Tuesday to bid farewell.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Tasnim news agency, further mourning ceremonies were planned in the religious stronghold and pilgrimage city of Qom and the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi is to be buried on Thursday in the Shiite centre of his home town of Mashhad, at the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth imam of Shia Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi and Amirabdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash with seven other occupants; they went down in dense fog in the mountains while travelling back from a meeting with Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Iran: Late President Raisi\u2019s funeral ceremony begins<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral ceremonies have begun in Iran for President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sunday\u2019s helicopter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13239,15,15522],"tags":[13240,180,15502],"class_list":["post-33174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-news","category-raisi","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-raisi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}