Editorial: Uncertainty in Iran after Raisi’s death

Soldiers carrying the coffin of late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and others, as it arrives for a funeral procession in the eastern city of Birjand, on May 23, 2024. Photo: Iranian Presidency / AFP

Following funeral services in Tabriz, Qom and Tehran, the late president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, was laid to rest in the North-Eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. Though nothing is likely to change in the short run, the death of the president, together with the foreign minister and other officials in a helicopter crash, will lead...