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By bne Tehran bureau bne Tehran bureau Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on May 22 led a funeral ceremony at Tehran University for the country’s late President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others who perished in a helicopter crash. On May 19, a helicopter carrying the Iranian president made a hard landing in the northwest of the republic near the border with Azerbaijan. In addition to Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of East Azerbaijan Province Malik Rahmati, and other officials and crew, were on board. They all died….

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