Bodies of President Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi, Malek Rahmati and Seyed Mahdi Mousavi were carried on the shoulders of mourners for a circumambulation around the tomb of Imam Reza in Mashhad, northeast Iran, to be laid to rest at Darassalam portico.
The funeral procession attracted millions, with throngs of mourners flooding the streets to pay their final respects to the president.
People from all walks of life from Mashhad and those coming from across the country and abroad made history on funeral day in paying full respect to the servant of nation and the servant of the holy shrine of Imam Reza.
According to director of culture and Islamic guidance of Khorasan Razavi province, the city of Mashhad hosted reporters and journalists from 65 world countries who had come to cover the massive funeral procession.
It was cool and raining, as if the sky was shedding tears to the body of a man who was dear and respectable to friend and foe, young and old.
Majority of the mourners were dressed in black and beat their chests and heads in a sign of sorrow and mourning. A truck carried his casket down a street, with mourners reaching out to touch it and tossing scarves and flowers against it for a blessing.  
 Raeisi, passed away on Sunday, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six others in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province in the mountainous northwest.

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