President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu issued a directive (No. 10/2024) today, declaring that the national flag would be flown at half-mast for three days, from Tuesday, May 21, 2024, to Thursday, May 23, 2024, in mourning for Iran's late President Dr Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was also killed in Sunday's crash, along with several others.
The helicopter - one of three traveling in a convoy - crashed after it got into difficulties in heavy fog in the north of the country. Raisi was heading to the city of Tabriz, in the north-west of Iran, after returning from a dam opening ceremony on the Azerbaijan border.
President Muizzu sent his condolences via a post on X in which he said that he was saddened by the untimely demise of the Iranian President.
The President also said that the thoughts of the Maldivian people were with the bereaved families and people of Iran at this time of profound grief.
