Hawzah News Agency- Dr. Ebrahim Jafari, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, expressed his condolences on the martyrdom of Hujjat al-Islam Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, the President of Iran and his accompanying delegation.

The text of his message is as follows:

In the name of God

With deep sadness and regret and submission to the command of Almighty God, I received the tragic news of the demise of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hossein Amir Abdullahian, and their accompanying delegation. May the Almighty God bless them with His vast mercy and place them in His paradise.

In this great calamity, we offer our condolences to the Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and the officials of Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the Iranian nation, and we ask God to grant patience and peace to the survivors and their loved ones and to bring them together with the righteous.

Dr. Ibrahim Jafari

Monday

May 21, 2024

It should be noted that a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian crashed in a dense forest area in East Azarbaijan on Sunday.

The helicopter's passengers, including Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir-Abdullahian, Iran's East Azerbaijan Province Governor Malek Rahmati, and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to East Azarbaijan Province, along with several other people were martyred in the incident.