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DUBAI:
Iran
interred late President Ebrahim
Raisi
at the holiest Shi'ite shrine in the nation on Thursday, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him along with the country's foreign minister and six others. Raisi was placed inside a tomb at the
Imam Reza Shrine
in Mashhad, where Shi'ite Islam's eighth imam is buried. The region long has been associated with Shi'ite pilgrimages.
A hadith, or saying, attributed to Islam's Prophet Mohammad says anyone with sorrow or sin will be relieved through visiting there.
Raisi is the first top government official to be buried at the shrine since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He once oversaw the shrine and a charity foundation associated with it, believed to be worth tens of billions of dollars. Raisi, who was 63, had been discussed as a possible successor to Iran's supreme leader, the 85-year-old Khamenei.
