Official Start of Farewell Ceremony for Ebrahim Raisi's Body

On the thirteenth day of Tir in the year 1405, the official public farewell ceremony for the body of the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran began at Imam Khomeini's Prayer Ground in Tehran. His body, along with the bodies of four family members, was placed in a special location at the prayer ground so that mourning citizens could bid him farewell. During the ceremony, reciter Hossein Sotoudeh performed a dirge beginning with the verse "I cannot believe your loss, O my Leader," taking charge of the religious program, and images and videos of these moments were widely distributed by domestic media outlets.

• The farewell ceremony was held at Imam Khomeini's Prayer Ground in Tehran, one of the largest public spaces in the city for religious and national gatherings.
• According to a report from Khabar Online, the body of the deceased Leader was present at the ceremony along with the bodies of four family members.
• His casket was placed in a special location at the prayer ground, as Hamshahri newspaper explicitly reported these details.
• Reciter Hossein Sotoudeh was in charge of the dirge performance at the ceremony, and the title of the dirge performed was "I cannot believe your loss, O my Leader."
• Mehr News Agency referred to him by the title "Karbalai Hossein Sotoudeh."
• Media outlets including Fars News Agency, Mehr, IRIB News, Young Journalists Club, Mashriq News, Akharin Khabar, and Hamshahri all published videos of the ceremony.
• Mehr News Agency and Hamshahri newspaper mentioned the ceremony date as the thirteenth of Tir in 1405.
• State and establishment-aligned media provided live and simultaneous coverage of the ceremony; Hamshahri newspaper noted that broadcasting was conducted through Aparat.
• The title "Iran's Martyred Gentleman" was used in reports by Mehr News Agency and IRIB News to refer to the deceased.. Coverage Difference: All eight media outlets providing coverage are from the domestic media spectrum aligned with the ruling establishment, and the main focus of all their reports was the publication of the dirge-recitation video, rather than the presentation of analysis or political details. The primary difference lies in the level of detail: Khabar Online and Hamshahri newspaper provided more information about the presence of family members' bodies and the ceremony arrangement, while most other media outlets merely republished the video and repeated the opening verse of the dirge. No media outlet approached the event from a critical or different perspective, and coverage by independent or foreign media outlets is absent from this collection.