Iranian authorities will hold a funeral for late President Ebrahim Raisi on May 23rd, and will hold the next presidential election on June 28th.
The election to decide the new president will be held on June 28th, candidate registration will be held from May 30th to June 3rd, and the election campaign period will be from June 12th to June 27th. The news agency reported.
Article 131 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran provides for the establishment of a council to manage the country's administrative affairs for a period of 50 days and prepare for presidential elections.
As Iran mourned the deaths of Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and a number of senior provincial officials in the second of five days of national mourning, authorities issued a notice and announced that a funeral for Raisi would be held in South Khorasan province in May. He will be buried in his hometown of Mashhad on the same day.
Raisi and his team were killed in a helicopter crash in Barzakan, northwestern Iran, on Sunday while returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a dam on the border between Iran and Azerbaijan.
Head of the regional office of the Iranian Islamic Missionary Organization in Tabriz, Hojatleslam Mahmoud Hosseini, told IRNA that Tabriz residents will bid farewell to the president in a funeral procession on May 21, and his body will be taken to Tabriz airport. That's what he said.
People in Tehran have already held ceremonies to mourn Raisi's death.
Both Turkiye and Sri Lanka announced a day of mourning for the Iranian president, as quoted by the news site Daily Mirror and IRNA.