Iran, after the dying of Raisi interim deputy Mokhber. An investigation has been opened into the helicopter crash. The first funerals
In progress at Tabriz the ceremony for the ultimate farewell to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the opposite individuals who died within the accident that final Sunday concerned the helicopter they have been touring on. This was reported by the Iranian Mehr company. After dying of Raisi, the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khameneihas proclaimed 5 days of nationwide mourning and different funeral ceremonies are anticipated within the subsequent few hours.
The investigation into the accident: the doable causes
Iran’s Chief of Staff, Mohammad Bagheri, ordered an investigation to make clear the causes of the helicopter crash. According to the Iranian ISNA company, Bagheri ordered “a high-ranking fee to launch an investigation into the causes. Russia for its half has declared itself prepared to offer help to Iran within the investigation, the secretary of the Security Council stated Russian, Sergei Shoigu, former Minister of Defense. In the background, the data launched by the Tehran media attributes the tragedy to an unspecified “technical failure”.
According to Iranian state media, the helicopter crashed attributable to “a technical fault”. According to the Turkish Transport Minister, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the plane “didn’t have an lively signaling system or didn’t have such a system”. And he then recalled that Ankara, which despatched the drones that situated the plane after hours of searches, hosts the coordination middle for searches for air crashes within the space that features Iran.
The former head of Iranian diplomacy Mohammad Javad Zarif as a substitute lashed out towards the United States, pointing the finger on the sanctions. “One of these accountable behind yesterday’s tragedy is the United States which – stated Zarif in a tv interview relaunched by Iran International – with their sanctions stop Iran from acquiring important elements within the aviation sector”.
The funeral program
From right this moment to Thursday a protracted collection of funeral rites will accompany the president till his burial in his hometown in Mashad, within the north-east of the Islamic Republic. According to what was reported by the Tasnim company, quoting the vp and head of the ‘committee for the funeral of martyrs’, Mohsen Mansouri, funeral ceremonies in honor of Raisi can be held not solely in Tabriz, but in addition in Qom within the afternoon and within the night in Tehran . Funeral companies are scheduled for Wednesday within the capital within the presence of Ali Khamenei, whereas one other ceremony can be held on Thursday morning in Birjand, in southern Khorasan. The president’s burial ceremony will then happen on the Imam Reza shrine in Mashad.
The official announcement of the dying
The plane crashed 20 km from the border with Azerbaijan and “crashed into the highest of a mountain”, Iranian state media reported. Iranian state TV formally introduced at daybreak yesterday the Raisi’s dying and the Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, calling them “martyrs” and releasing a screenshot of the video footage taken contained in the helicopter earlier than it crashed. Iran’s Mehr information company additionally reported that each one passengers on board the plane “have been martyred.”
The broadcaster’s announcement got here after a collection of communications filtered in the previous few hours. Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of the Red Crescent, cleared the sector of doubts: “With the invention of the accident website, no indicators of life have been recognized among the many helicopter’s passengers.” The automobile, he defined, was utterly engulfed in flames after the crash.
Khamenei appoints Mokhber as interim president
In the emergency, Khamenei appointed the primary vp, Mohammad Mokhber, as performing president. Wings Bagheri Kani he was as a substitute appointed Foreign Minister of Iran. Formerly Hossein Amir Abdollahian’s deputy, he had been chief negotiator for Tehran’s nuclear program. In the previous he had additionally held the place of head of the Supreme Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic.
Presidential elections on June 28
After Raisi’s dying, the presidential elections in Iran can be held on June twenty eighth. This was reported by Irna, explaining that candidates will be capable to register from 30 May to three June and the electoral marketing campaign will happen from 12 June to the morning of 27 June. The date of the elections was determined throughout a gathering chaired by Mokhber, attended by the Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the top of the Iranian judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, as required by Article 131 of the Iranian Constitution .