TEHRAN -- The date corresponding to the martyrdom of Iran’s former president Ebrahim Raisi and his companions has been registered as a national day in Iran’s calendar.
The date, which witnessed the martyrdom of president Raisi and his companions, including former foreign minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian, was registered as the “Day of the Martyrs of Service.”
The development took place as per a decree issued by President Massoud Pezeshkian and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.
The 63-year-old cleric, who rose through the ranks to become one of the most important politicians in Iran and beyond, passed away in a helicopter crash in a mountainous region in bad weather after visiting the northwestern border region where he and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, inaugurated two dams built on the Aras River.