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Tehran (dpa) - A new parliament convened in Iran's capital Tehran for the first time on Monday, days after a deadly helicopter crash which killed the country's president and foreign minister.
State radio reported that lawmakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly opened the first session of the legislative period with a recitation from the Quran.
A new parliamentary speaker is set to be elected in the coming days.
Incumbent Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is running for re-election against Mojtaba Zonnour and former foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash near the border to Azerbaijan more than a week ago.
The state news agency IRNA said more than 3 million people attended Raisi's funeral in the north-eastern city of Mashhad on Thursday after days of national mourning.
