Memorial service for President of Iran to be held in Yerevan - date  of new presidential elections in Iran is already known

ArmInfo. A memorial service will be held in Yerevan for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and of the  delegation accompanying him, who died on May 19 in a helicopter crash.

According to the press service of the cultural center at the Iranian  Embassy in Armenia, the funeral service will take place on May 3 at  6:30 pm in the conference hall of the Blue Mosque.  Notably, the date  of new presidential elections in Iran is already known. Mohsen  Eslami, the spokesperson for Iran's Election Headquarters, said that  the presidential elections in Iran will be held on June 28, Mehr  reports.

On the afternoon of May 19, information spread that the Iranian  President's helicopter had crashed. The Iranian president was  returning from the northwestern Iranian province of East Azerbaijan  after the opening of a dam on the common border with Azerbaijan, in  the occupied territories of Artsakh.

The plane was found 30 kilometers from the village of Taval.  According to preliminary data, the helicopter lost control due to an  electronic failure and thick fog, fell onto a mountain and caught  fire. All the passengers of the Iranian presidential helicopter were  killed. President of Iran  Ebrahim Raisi, Minister of Foreign Affairs   Hossein Amirabdollahian, Governor of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati ,  Imam of Tabriz Ayatollah Ale-Hashem (Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ale- Hashem  )were in the crashed helicopter.