Martyred Iranian President Raisi was buried in Mashad

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From the early hours of Thursday, Iranian citizens in Mashad took to the streets to bid farewell to their president dead along other colleagues in a helicopter crash on Sunday 19th. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00In Iran, the body of martyred President Ebrahim Raisi was buried in the mausoleum of Imam

00:05Reza, peace be upon him, the 8th Shiite imam in the Masjid Nudistan, Iran.

00:11From the early hours of till Thursday, Iranian citizens in Masjid took to the streets to

00:15bid farewell to their president, dead, along with his chancellor Hossein Amir Abdullahian

00:21and other colleagues, in a helicopter crash on Sunday 19th in the north-western province

00:26of Istanbul, Serbia.

00:28The farewell ceremony has been historic.

00:30According to the Masjid city hall, more than three million people have participated in

00:35the ceremony to say the last farewell to their leader.

00:45Early on Thursday, Iranian went out into the streets of the city of Masjid to give their

00:51last farewell to their late president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian

00:57and the other companions who died in the helicopter accident.

01:00Mourners dressed in black walked into the streets of Masjid with tears of teary eyes

01:06in front of the coffins wrapped in the Iranian flag that they were transported by truck.

01:11During the ceremony, the mourners chanted slogans and reiterated their loyalty to the

01:16Islamic revolution and rejected at the same time the intimidations of the West, especially

01:21the United States.

01:22They also reaffirmed their support for the Palestinian cause until its liberation from

01:27the genocide regime of Israel.

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