Former Palestinian ambassador to Iran laid to rest in Tehran
Funeral held for Former Palestinian ambassador to Iran Salah al-Zawawi who passed away at a hospital in Tehran on Monday at the age of 85.
His body laid to rest at Tehran's Behesht Zahra Cemetery.
A group of Iranian pro-Palestinian activists, officials and some ambassadors joined a funeral procession for Salah al-Zawawi, the late Palestinian ambassador to Iran, in Tehran on Wednesday.
The head of the Committee for the Support of the Islamic Revolution of the Palestinian People affiliated with the Presidential Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran performs funeral prayer for al-Zawawi.
Zawawi brought to an end four decades of diplomatic mission, starting in 1980, in the Islamic Republic in early January 2022.
He was one of the founding members of the Fatah political party, and the second Palestinian ambassador to Tehran since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Zawawi had also served as the Palestinian ambassador to Algeria, Brazil, and Kenya.
His daughter Salam al-Zawawi is now Palestine’s ambassador to Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a message on Monday expressed his condolences to Zawawi’s family and the people of Palestine, according to mfa.ir.
He added over his years-long battle against the Zionist enemy and several decades of diplomatic activities in Iran, Zawawi always fought to safeguard the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people, keep alive the Palestinian cause and defend the holy Al-Quds.
He hailed the effort made by the former ambassador during his long tenure in Tehran and said that during long years of fight against the Zionist enemy and decades of diplomatic presence in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the late Mr. al-Zawawi has always been in the path of fulfilment of the rights of the oppressed people of Palestine, keeping the cause of Palestine alive and defending the holy Quds.
Amirabdollahian expressed hope that the efforts of the Palestinian people, Mr. al-Zawawi in particular, will yield fruit and this land will be fully liberated from the occupying Zionists, with an inclusive government formed all across the country in the near future.
