Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday met Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and expressed condolences on the death of late president Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage in a helicopter crash.
Raisi helicopter crashed on Sunday on a haze covered mountainside in northern Iran en route to the city of Tabriz after the gathering went to the initiation of a dam project on the boundary with Azerbaijan.
An enormous hunt and salvage activity was sent off, including help from Turkey, Russia and the European Association. State TV reported Raisi’s passing right off the bat Monday.
The Iranian military said today that locally delivered drones played had the critical impact in finding the accident site.
Raisi, who was broadly expected to succeed Khamenei as incomparable pioneer, was 63.
In his gathering with Khamenei after the memorial service parades, PM Shehbaz underlined that Raisi was a “visionary pioneer who showed unflinching commitment to serving his nation and individuals”.
Reviewing the late president’s visit to Pakistan last month, the top state leader featured his exemplary job in additional reinforcing Pakistan-Iran respective relations, the PM Office said in an official statement.
PM Shehbaz communicated fortitude with “Iranian brethren and sisters at the basic point in history and repeated Pakistan’s obligation to additional reinforcing the obligations of fellowship and fraternity with the public authority and individuals of charitable Iran”.
He communicated the determination to proceed with Raisi’s vision for reinforcing the respective relationship and exchange between the two nations.
The head said that Raisi’s commitments to the “solidarity of the Muslim world as well with respect to the blockaded individuals of Gaza will be carved ever”.
The top state leader was joined by Representative State leader and Unfamiliar Priest Ishaq Dar, Inside Clergyman Mohsin Naqvi, Trade Pastor Jam Kamal Khan and Data Pastor Attaullah Tarar.
Khamenei said Iran valued the opinions of the public authority and individuals of Pakistan in this crucial time and offered thanks to them.
He repeated that Iran concurred significance to its binds with Pakistan and would proceed with the vision of the late president in such manner.
The head of the state welcomed the Iranian preeminent pioneer to visit Pakistan.
PM Shehbaz prior went to the dedication function of the late Iranian president and the others martyred in the accident, including late unfamiliar clergyman Hossein Amirabdollahian.
The top state leader showed up at the corridor where the body of the late president was set, offered petitions and honored Raisi’s commitments towards the advancement and thriving of the Iranian country, advancement of Pak-Iran two-sided ties, and endeavors for the area.
PM Shehbaz likewise communicated sympathies for the benefit of individuals and administration of Pakistan to acting President Dr Mohammad Mokhber.
The top state leader said that the public authority and individuals of Pakistan got the insight about the accident with “tremendous shock and pain”.
“They shared the melancholy and distress of the deprived families and individuals of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and gave their genuine sympathies,” he added.
He further communicated feelings for the dispossessed families and the Iranian country, adding that the whole Pakistani country remained with the “thoughtful nation of Iran in the troublesome minutes”.
Commending the commitments of the late Iranian president, the top state leader said Raisi was a “extraordinary companion” of Pakistan, adding that the significant time he spent among individuals of Pakistan during his April visit would continuously be recollected.
He additionally passed great wishes on to the Iranian VP on expecting the workplace.
Prior, upon landing in the air terminal, Iranian Clergyman for Street and Metropolitan Advancement Mehrdad Bazrpash and Representative of Pakistan in Tehran Mudassir Tipu got the state leader.
Big crowds in Tehran for president’s funeral
Khamenei led prayers for Raisi as huge crowds thronged the capital Tehran for his funeral procession.
Flanked by top officials, Khamenei said prayers over the coffins of the eight dead.
A sea of mourners filled the open space around Tehran university, where the prayers were held before the funeral procession moved on to Enghelab and Azadi squares.
State television said Raisi, who had been widely seen as Khamenei’s most likely successor as supreme leader, had received a “millionfold farewell” from the people of Tehran.
“We have lost a prominent personality. He was a very good brother. He was an efficient, competent, sincere, and serious official,” Khamenei told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani.
The leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, joined the procession, as did the deputy leader of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem.
“I say once again … we are sure that the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its support for the Palestinian people,” Haniyeh told the crowd to chants of “Death to Israel”
Foreign guests
President Mokhber later got heads and delegates of nations in the Center East, North Africa, Asia and Europe.
Tunisian President Kais Saied and Qatari Emir Tamim receptacle Hamad al-Thani went to a midday service in which around 60 nations participated, said state news organization IRNA.
Egypt’s top ambassador, Sameh Shoukry, was likewise at the function. He was the principal Egyptian unfamiliar pastor to visit Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Upheaval.
Part nations of the European Association were among the truants of the service while some non-part nations, including Belarus and Serbia had their delegates.
In the capital, gigantic standards went up hailing the late president as “the saint of administration”, while others bade “goodbye to the worker of the burdened”.
Tehran occupants got telephone messages encouraging them to join the burial service parade.
“I was miserable, I came to quiet my heart and quiet the core of the preeminent pioneer,” said one griever who gave her name just as Maryam and said she had gone from Varamin, south of Tehran, to offer her final appreciation.
Burial in Mashhad
Memorial service functions for Raisi and his company started on Tuesday with parades through Tabriz and the Shia administrative focal point of Qom drawing a huge number of dark clad grievers.
From Tehran, the bodies will be taken to Iran’s second city of Mashhad, Raisi’s old neighborhood in the upper east, where he will be covered on Thursday night after memorial service customs at the Imam Reza holy place.
Khamenei, who employs extreme expert in Iran, has pronounced five days of public grieving and relegated Mokhber, 68, as overseer president until a June 28 political race for Raisi’s replacement.
Iran’s top atomic arbitrator Ali Bagheri, who was Amir-Abdollahian’s appointee, was named acting unfamiliar clergyman.
The nation’s military boss Mohammad Bagheri has requested an examination concerning the reason for the helicopter crash.
Raisi was chosen president in 2021, succeeding the moderate Hassan Rouhani when the economy was battered by US sanctions forced over Iran’s atomic exercises.
The traditionalist’s time in office saw mass fights, a developing monetary emergency and remarkable furnished trades with main foe Israel.
After his passing, Russia and China sent their sympathies, as did Nato, while the UN Security Board noticed brief’s quietness.
Messages of sympathy additionally overflowed in from Iran’s partners around the locale, including the Syrian government along with Hamas and Hezbollah.
