Pubblichiamo di seguito il telegramma di cordoglio per la scomparsa del Presidente della Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, inviato dal Santo Padre Francesco al Grande Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Guida Suprema della Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran:

Telegramma del Santo Padre

GRAND AYATOLLAH SAYYED ALI HOSSEINI KHAMENEI
SUPREME LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
TEHRAN

I SEND CONDOLENCES UPON THE DEATHS OF PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAISI, FOREIGN MINISTER HOSSEIN AMIR-ABDOLLAHIAN AND ALL WHO PERISHED IN YESTERDAY’S HELICOPTER CRASH. ENTRUSTING THE SOULS OF THE DECEASED TO THE MERCY OF THE ALMIGHTY, AND WITH PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO MOURN THEIR LOSS, ESPECIALLY THEIR FAMILIES, I SEND THE ASSURANCE OF SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS TO THE NATION AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME.

FRANCISCUS

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