Iranian rescuers recovered Monday morning the remains of Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi and eight other passengers from the helicopter which crashed the day before in the northwest of the country, the Red Crescent announced.
“We are in the process of transferring the bodies of the martyrs to Tabriz,” the large city in the northwest, Red Crescent leader Pirhossein Koulivand declared on state television, announcing the end of search operations.
The government will hold an “emergency meeting” on Monday, the official Irna agency said, without giving details of the schedule and content of the discussions.
The Constitution provides that President Raïssi be replaced, in the event of his death, by the first vice-president, Mohammad Mokhber, before the organization of a presidential election within 50 days.
Furthermore, the Tehran Stock Exchange was closed on Monday following the announcement of the death, said a member of its board of directors, Reza Eyvazlou, quoted by the Mehr agency.
Pakistan declared a day of mourning on Monday following Iranian media reports of the death of the President of the Islamic Republic, Ebrahim Raïssi, in a helicopter accident.
“Pakistan will observe a day of mourning and the flag will be at half mast” in “solidarity with Iran”, a “brother” country, wrote the Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, on the social network “The Iranian government will overcome this tragedy with its usual courage,” he added, while Islamabad welcomed the Iranian leader with great fanfare at the end of April.
The EU expressed its “sincere condolences” through Charles Michel.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas presented its condolences to the Iranian people after the announcement of the death of President Ebrahim Raïssi, welcoming in the person of the deceased “support for the Palestinian resistance”.
For his part, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad proclaims “his solidarity” with Iran, while Russia says it has lost “true friends” with the deaths of Iranian President Raïssi and his minister, according to Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs.
