Berri-led delegation heads to Iran to offer condolences over Raisi

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday traveled to Tehran at the head of a delegation to offer condolences over the death of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others in a helicopter crash.

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei presided over the funeral of the late officials on Wednesday, as tens of thousands followed a procession of their caskets through the capital, Tehran.

The Lebanese delegation comprises caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, Higher Islamic Shiite Council deputy head Sheikh Ali al-Khatib, Amal Movement presidential committee member Khalil Hamdan, Berri’s media adviser Ali Hamdan, and the head of parliament’s media dept., Ali Diab.