Hawzah News Agency- The cultural counselor of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in South Africa Seyyed Mostafa Daryabari issued a message on the martyrdom of Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, the text of which is as follows:

We are from Allah, and to Him, we shall return

With deepest sorrow, I inform you of the passing of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sayed Ebrahim Raisi.

My deepest condolences to the Iranian nation, and friends and lovers of Iran. A giant tree has fallen.

Besides President Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Governor of East Azerbaijan Province, and the Friday Prayer Leader of Tabriz onboard the crashed copter were all martyred. The helicopter crashed in a mountainous region in the Northwestern province of East Azerbaijan on Sunday, May 18.

Ayatollah Sayed Ibrahim Raisi was a revolutionary, a man of God, a lifelong champion of freedom and justice, and a great lover of the Iranian nation who defended our Constitution to the very end.

When the Muslim world turned a blind eye to the atrocities happening in Palestine, he stood up and acted and dedicated his government and revolutionary forces to the Islamic Resistance in Palestine.

His dedication to the poor and the oppressed children of Palestine confirms that his passing will revive the revolutionary spirit in all of us.

The enemy should not rejoice as more of his caliber will emerge.