Thousands gather for Iranian president's funeral

Thousands of mourners filled the streets of Mashhad, Iran on Thursday for the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi and his burial at the gold-domed Imam Reza shrine, Iran's holiest Islamic site.

Raisi, 63, was killed Sunday, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and six others in a helicopter crash in Iran's East Azerbaijan province in the mountainous northwest. Raisi was widely seen as a candidate to