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STORY: :: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads prayers ahead of the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi :: Tehran, Iran :: May 22, 2024:: Raisi and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday Mourners wore black and held photos of the late president as they took part in the prayers.The death of the president came at a time of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large over issues from tightening social and political controls to economic hardship.Raisi's body was flown from Tabriz, the closest major city to the remote crash site, to Tehran airport before heading to the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom.From there, it was returned to the capital to lie at Tehran's Grand Mosalla Mosque before being transferred to his hometown of Mashhad, in eastern Iran, for burial on Thursday (May 23).