Owji wrote in his post: Martyrdom is a reward especial to God’s indefatigable and pious followers.

Ayatollah Ibrahim Raisi and seven other persons on board, including Hossain Amirabdollahian, the Iranian minister of foreign affairs, lost their lives on Sunday during a chopper crash in northwest of the country on the way returning from a ceremony which had been held to inaugurate opening a dam on Aras River.