TEHRAN – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday evening sent a letter of condolence to the Army chief on the occasion of his wife’s death.

The letter addressed to General Ataollah Salehi reads, “Please accept my condolences on the decease of your wife, a patient and pious lady. I wish her bliss and divine mercy.”

In similar letters, other Islamic Republic officials such as Judiciary chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani and IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari also expressed condolences to Salehi.

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