Iranian president`s death not to shake it as regional superpower -  expert  

ArmInfo. Iran is an ancient country with a long tradition and experience of statehood over  thousands of years, whose bureaucracy is one of the most established in the world, expert in Iranian studies Vardan Voskanyan wrote on his Facebook account.

According to him, it is thanks to this bureaucracy that the  government system of this country is able to extract maximum benefit  from the most in the Middle East, the level of bureaucracy in this  country is completely incomparable to any other Middle Eastern state  on average.   "Therefore, even the death of the president and other  officials, also taking into account the mentioned factor, cannot  shake the position of this country as a regional superpower," the  expert wrote.

Today in the Iranian city of Tabriz, located in the province of East  Azerbaijan, a farewell ceremony is being held for President Ibrahim  Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and their companions  who died in the plane crash. The delegation of Armenia, headed by  Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, takes part  in the ceremony.