{"id":36901,"date":"2024-05-20T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36901"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:12:46","slug":"iran-declares-five-days-of-mourning-over-president-raisis-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-declares-five-days-of-mourning-over-president-raisis-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran declares five days of mourning over President Raisi&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-b77c8bb-0 daiYje\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced five days of mourning following President Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s death in a helicopter crash on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI announce five days of public mourning and offer my condolences to the dear people of Iran,\u201d said Khamenei in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>President Raisi, 63, had been tipped as a potential successor to the supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-e1853509-0 bmLndb\">President Raisi was killed along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash in a mountainous terrain in East Azerbaijan province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the demise of the Iranian President, Khamenei has appointed Vice President of Iran Mohammad Mokhber as acting president and has a maximum period of 50 days to hold elections, Iran\u2019s official news agency IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iranian-president-raisi-feared-dead-as-helicopter-wreckage-found\/\">Iranian President Raisi, Foreign Minister found dead in helicopter crash<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Raisi, the country\u2019s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country\u2019s northwest, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\u201cPresident Raisi, the foreign minister, and all the passengers in the helicopter were killed in the crash,\u201d the senior Iranian official said.\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Raisi and his companions were returning from an event with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">when the crash happened<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The officials include\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, a\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Representative of the Iranian supreme leader in East Azerbaijan\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mohammad<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Ali Ale-Hashem, the\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Head of the presidential guard Mehdi Mousavi, t<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he helicopter\u2019s pilot, co-pilot, and crew.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-b77c8bb-0 esMqKN\" data-component=\"video-block\" data-testid=\"fabl-video-container\">\n<div class=\"sc-7dd00c51-0 fBJWQA\">\n<div id=\"bbcMediaPlayer0\" class=\"sc-7dd00c51-1 byEEBG\" data-testid=\"\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced five days of mourning following President Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s death in a helicopter crash on Monday. \u201cI announce five days of public mourning and offer my condolences to the dear people of Iran,\u201d said Khamenei in an official statement. President Raisi, 63, had been tipped as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,3],"tags":[17210],"class_list":["post-36901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-iran-five-days-of-mourning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}