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Funeral ceremonies have begun in Iran for President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sunday\u2019s helicopter crash.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
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
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