Iran prepares to bury President Raisi
Iran's president will be buried in his hometown on Thursday, capping days of funerals after his death in a helicopter crash left the country without one of its highest-profile leaders.The late president, Ebrahim Raisi, will be buried at the Imam Reza shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam. Before that, his body had been flown from Tehran, the capital, to the eastern city of Birjand for a funeral procession. Photos and videos published by state media showed smaller crowds in Birjand than the tens of thousands who crowded the streets of Tehran a day earlier.Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced five days of mourning after Raisi, 63, and the country's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, 60, died along with ...