News - Middle East: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the massive turnout of Iranian people in funeral processions for the late President Ebrahim Raeisi is a testament to the nation’s loyalty to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a Saturday meeting held in the capital Tehran with the families of Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six of their companions who lost their lives in a helicopter crash in the northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan last week.
Pointing to the enemy’s propaganda and claims regarding the estrangement of Iranian people from the Islamic Republic, the Leader said, “This incident, before the very eyes of the world and in practice, proved the attachment and loyalty of the Iranian nation to the president and those who embodied the mottoes of the Revolution.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolution against the Western-backed Pahlavi dynasty was spearheaded by the late Imam Khomeini in 1979 and led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
Praising President Raeisi as a manifestation of the mottoes of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “Mr. Raeisi relied on the slogans of the Revolution and the words of the Imam from the very beginning when he ran for the elections, and the whole world knew him as the president of the Revolution.”
“When people support and honor this man in such a great way, it means supporting the slogans of the Revolution,” he stressed.