I’m at President Raisi’s funeral in Tehran. Millions of people are in the streets. President Putin and Ismail Haniyeh have also come to pay their respects. Whateve Western media told you about Raisi being “disliked” in Iran is a lie. His passing is a loss for the entire world. pic.twitter.com/iVXFTXD6hV
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) May 22, 2024
Millions of ppl came to the Funeral Ceremony of #President_Raisi and his companions in Tehran. Rest in Peace Man of God may you place be in Heaven. 🤲🇮🇷🌹 pic.twitter.com/GTmjsK3vZl
— Someone Who’s waiting for🌹12th Imam🌹 (@Wattingforit) May 22, 2024
Piers, we saw millions of mourners in Tehran yesterday.
The day before, unprecedented crowds attended the funeral in the cities of Tabriz and Qom.
Today, there are massive funerals in different cities for the other crash victims.
And now Mashhad City welcomes Raisi home. https://t.co/ddPwXorabZ pic.twitter.com/vCI8olTeI5
— Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) May 23, 2024
Seems like this dude was pretty popular.
Tens of thousands of Iranians attended the Tehran funeral of the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, whose death in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountain on Sunday has opened up a potentially volatile moment in Iranian politics.
He died with seven others, including the foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who was hailed by Hamas on Wednesday as the minister for the resistance.
Amid chaotic crowd scenes, the coffins of those killed were shown to people gathered for the funeral as the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led prayers at the University of Tehran, where he embraced Raisi’s grandchildren and urged Iranians to remember a devoted servant. Many Iranians revile Raisi for his role in killing thousands of political prisoners during his political career.
Chants of ‘“death to Israel” were heard from the loyalist crowd as the coffins, draped in the Iranian flag, were taken through the capital as part of five days of national mourning.
Away from the religious ceremony, high politics continued with Khamenei meeting regional and Gulf leaders, as well as Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political office. Naim Qassem, the deputy chief of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, also attended the funeral.
Referring to pro-Palestine protests at American, European and Japanese universities, Khamenei told Haniyeh: “Who would have believed that one day in Japan there would be demonstrations in favour of Palestine, slogans in [the] Persian language ‘Death to Israel’.”
He said “God’s promise” to “wipe out” Israel would come true “just as God’s promise to the mother of Prophet Moses came true. By God’s grace, the day will come when Palestine will be formed from the river to the sea.”
It’s obvious the Jews killed him. No one really needs evidence for that one.
His replacement is going to be way worse.
Jews are going to regret this.
Chants of “Death to Israel” as Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas terror chief, gives speech at Raisi funeral today in Tehran, attended by regime elites. Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem in attendance +roster of #IRGCterrorists. Western leaders & the UN sent condolences to this cohort on Raisi’s death pic.twitter.com/AwiLkhH63T
— Kasra Aarabi (کسری اعرابی) (@KasraAarabi) May 22, 2024