The ceremony commemorating the martyrdom of “Ayatollah Raïssi”, the president and his companions was held in the administrative hall of the Sirjan special economic zone.
According to the region's public relations report, during this ceremony, which took place at 9:00 a.m. in the administrative hall of the special region, it was accompanied by eulogies and recitation of Fatiha.
Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi Khadim al-Reza (PBUH) and the 8th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who suffered a plane crash on Sunday evening, May 19, 2024, while returning from the opening ceremony from the Qiz Qalasi dam to In the city of Tabriz, in the Warzaghan region, East Azerbaijan province, with all his companions, at the same time as the night of the birth of Imam Rauf Ali Ibn Musa al-Reza (a.s.), he attained the high status of martyrdom. Hojjat al-Islam Al Hashem, the representative of the religious jurist and Friday imam of Tabriz, Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malik Rahmati, the governor of East Azerbaijan, Sardar Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, the commander of the unit protection of the president, and a number of bodyguards and helicopter crews were among the passengers of the helicopter carrying the president. Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raees al-Sadati, 64, was the eighth president of Iran.