“I went up to the roof last night, and there were fireworks in several parts of the city,” a resident of Karaj, near Tehran, said.
“I also heard people chanting ‘death to the dictator’ somewhere close by,” he added.
Many Iranians celebrated in secret and some people told The Telegraph they stayed awake waiting for “good news to come out of the mountains”.
“I was on my phone all night and when I finally saw the news, I jumped from bed and started dancing,” a man in Tehran said.
“I went to a nearby shop, and it was incredible. The shopkeeper, whom I know, gave me a free cigarette and said, ‘Let’s hope for more crashes like this’,” he said.
The mother of a Kurdish prisoner executed earlier this year posted a video of herself dancing upon hearing the news of Raisi’s death.
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