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Rafsanjani Funeral /

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was an influential Iranian politician and one of the founders of the Islamic Republic who was the fourth President of Iran from 1989 until 1997. The Economist called him a "veteran kingmaker". On 8 January 2017, he died at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack.
Iranian government observed a national mourning period of 3 days. Rafsanjani's body lay in state at Jamaran Huseinieh, near where his house was located. Thousands of the people and officials from Iran and other countries visited his body at Jamaran. A state funeral was held on 10 January 2017 which was attended by millions of the people and his body was buried at Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini hours later.

According to Iranian TV and governor of Tehran, 2.5 million attended his funeral. It was the second-largest funeral in Iran and the first in the last 25 years after the funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.

And these are some of my photos from Jamaran to Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini.

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