State news agency Irna also posted video showing rescuers carrying a body wrapped in a blanket in a stretcher. The bodies were recovered and transferred to a cemetery in Tabriz, state TV said. The head of Iran’s crisis management agency, Mohammad Nami, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency that all of the bodies were identifiable, with “no need for DNA examinations”. He also said Ayatollah Al-e Hashem was alive for an hour after the crash and that he made contact with the head of the president’s office before he died.
