Iran's deputy culture minister for artistic affairs:
We lost a very patient president

Iran Theater- Mahmoud Salari described Ayatollah Raisi as the president who tolerated and was patient with sarcasms and everything that was immoral.
Iran's deputy culture minister for artistic affairs expressed his condolences on the martyrdom of Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi (President), Hossein AmirAbdollahian (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and his accompanying delegation in the air crash of East Azerbaijan.
Mahmoud Salari said, "We all belong to God and we return to God. I offer my condolences; I hope that God will bless all of us in the end. The most important thing of this event is to learn a lesson for a good ending."
He continued: "Actually, the happy ending that we say in the prayers was this; Because he as the president tolerated and was patient with sarcasms and everything that was immoral. For sure, it would have happened more than one year left in his first term, and for sure the cowardice and injustices would also have increased, so in my opinion, it was a good outcome for him to visit his noble ancestor on the night of the birthday of Imam Reza. We hope that God will bless us all in the end."
In the end, he said: " Experience has shown that in our country, those whose responsibility ends will not be immune from destruction.So this happy ending is auspicious for them, although it is difficult and painful for us.”