External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India stands with the people of Iran in their time of tragedy
India is observing a one-day mourning today, May 21, for Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash, along with other senior Iranian officials, in a remote area of northwestern Iran.
According to the Indian government’s statement, the national flag will be flown at half-mast throughout India on all buildings where the national flag is flown regularly and there will be no official entertainment on the day.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India stands with the people of Iran in their time of tragedy.
Along with President Ebrahim Raisi were Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the representative of the Supreme Leader in Tabriz, and the governor-general of Eastern Azerbaijan province, when the tragic crash took place.
It may be noted that Raisi is the second Iranian president to die in office since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The first was Mohammad Ali Rajaei, who was assassinated by the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organization, a militant group that broke away from the revolution, in 1981.
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