The coffin of the Iranian president arrives in the city of Mashhad.. video

The coffin of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived today, Thursday, at the airport in the city of Mashhad, his birthplace, where he will be buried next to the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth imam of the Twelver Shiites.

A funeral ceremony will be held in the squares of Mashhad before the completion of the burial process. A funeral ceremony was held this morning for the body in Janbazan Square in the center of the city of Birjand, the capital of South Khorasan Province, eastern Iran.

The journey of Raisi's body over the past few days included the cities of Tabriz, Qom, and Tehran, and today his final destination will be in the city of Mashhad, where he will be buried.

Also this morning, a ceremony honoring the late Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian was held in Mashakh Square of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Tehran, and his body will also be buried in Tehran in the shrine of Abdel Azim Hosni.

In the city of Tabriz, eastern Iran, the burial ceremony of the Tabriz Friday preacher, Ayatollah Al-Hashem, is being held.