Thousands of people in Tabriz are paying tribute to the Friday prayer leader of Tabriz and governor of East Azarbaijan who were martyred in the Sunday helicopter crash in northwest Iran.

Iranian President Sayyed Ebrahim Raeisi together with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Tabriz Friday prayer leader and representative of the Leader in, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e Hashim, Malik Rahmati, governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province and Sayyed Mahdi Mousavi, head of the guard team were all martyred in the helicopter crash.