Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares five days of national mourning for Raisi's death
Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday in a plane crash, Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, declared a five-day public mourning on Monday. teleSUR
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00:00 The leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, approved the
00:04 appointment of first vice president Mohammad Mugabeh as the country's interim president
00:09 on Monday.
00:10 Through a statement, the highest Iranian political authority assured that the vice president
00:14 is in the position of directing the executive power and is obliged to agree on the election
00:18 of a new president within a maximum period of 50 days.
00:22 In this regard, Khamenei declared five days of national mourning for the martyrdom of
00:26 President Sayyed Ebrahim Raisi after the helicopter in which he was being transported was involved
00:31 in an accident.
00:33 On the other hand, it was confirmed that until now, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri
00:37 Khamenei will serve as acting foreign minister after the death of Foreign Minister Hossein
00:42 Amin Abdel-Hayat.