Rahmon has departed for Iran

On May 22, the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, visited Iran to participate in the farewell ceremony and express condolences following the death of the President of Iran, Ibrahim Raisi.

According to the press service of the President of Tajikistan, Rahmon attended a mourning ceremony in Tehran for those who perished in the tragedy – President of Iran Ibrahim Raisi and his accompanying officials.

Rahmon expressed condolences to the Deputy President of Iran, Mohammad Mukhbir, as well as to the “brotherly and friendly people of Iran, and the relatives and loved ones of the deceased.”

Dozens of official and unofficial delegations from various countries, as well as international and regional organizations, also arrived in Tehran to participate in the mourning ceremony.

Earlier, on May 19, a helicopter carrying President Raisi and several officials crashed in mountainous terrain during heavy fog in northwestern Iran, near the border with Azerbaijan.

As a result of the aviation disaster, the President of Iran Ibrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malek Rahmati, and the imam and khatib of the mosque in Tabriz, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al Hashem, among a total of nine people, were killed.

On the morning of that day, Ibrahim Raisi, during his visit to East Azerbaijan, met with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and inaugurated the “Gyz-Kalasy” dam, built in cooperation between the two countries on the border river Araks.