IRNA � The speaker of Majlis (the Iranian Parliament) has expressed condolences on Thursday to Indonesia over the plane crash.


'I sympathize with you and the families of the deceased passengers of the plane, and pray to God for his forgiveness for the ones that lost their lives in the crash,' wrote Ali Larijani in his message to Speaker of the People's Representative Council Bambang Soesatyo.

A Lion Air passenger plane that took off Monday from Jakarta crashed into the sea with 189 people on board; all passengers and crew on broad were killed.