Iran holds funeral procession for late president Raisi after crash death
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00:00A sea of mourners filled the streets of the Iranian city of Tabriz.
00:05The somber crowds came out to pay their respects to the country's president
00:10and members of his entourage including Iran's foreign minister
00:14who died in Sunday's helicopter crash.
00:17A truck carrying the coffins drove past as crowds said their final goodbyes.
00:24Over in the Iranian capital meanwhile,
00:26mourners lined the streets with five days of national mourning underway.
00:33Raisi was a very popular president. He cared for the people and worked for the people.
00:37Besides the Iranian people, he also cared about the interests of the region.
00:42Earlier on Tuesday, the assembly of experts gathered in Tehran.
00:46The body is tasked with appointing the country's next supreme leader.
00:51An internal vote was due to take place to appoint a new chairman,
00:55a post which was likely to go to the late Ebrahim Raisi.
01:00We offer condolences over the martyr-like death of the dear friends we lost,
01:05mainly the great and precious Islamic scholar,
01:08His Excellency Mr. Ebrahim Raisi, our country's popular president.
01:14Raisi's body meanwhile will travel from Tabriz to the Shiite clerical centre of Qom
01:19before being taken to the capital.
01:21Processions are due to take place in Tehran on Wednesday,
01:24with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading prayers later in the day.
01:28The coffin will take one final flight to Raisi's hometown of Mashhad,
01:32with the burial scheduled for Thursday.