Their car was hit by a truck near the Western entrance of Gorgan and both were injured and died later in a hospital.

The two officials were accompanying Iran’s Minister of Labour and Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari in the official visit.

Shriatmadari and provincial governor-general Seyyed Manaf Hasehmi had immediately arrived in Hakim Jorjani hospital to follow up closely the process of medical treatment of the officials.

Khalil Hanif, the director of provincial affairs at the ministry of jobs and social security was also injured in the accident.

Hadi Hashemian, the head of Golestan Judiciary said the driver has been arrested.

Bodies of Nourbakhsh and Tajeddin were transferred to Tehran for funeral procession on Friday morning, after a ceremony in Gorgan to commemorate the two high-ranking officials.

Social Security Organization (SSO) is a social insurer organization in Iran which provides coverage of wage-earners and salaried workers as well as voluntary coverage of self-employed persons.

A number of Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, fisrt Vice President Es'hagh Jahangiri, Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi and AEOI head Ali Akbar Salehi have issued messages to express their condolences to their bereaved families and the people of Iran.

LR</s>TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV is reporting that the managing director of the country’s social security agency and his deputy have been killed in a car crash in northern Iran.

The Thursday report said Taghi Nourbakhsh and his deputy, Abdolrahman Tajeddin, were injured in a car crash in northern Golestan Province and both died later in a hospital.

The Social Security Organization is a non-governmental organization that provides retirement, disability and unemployment insurance for wage-earners and salaried workers as well as self-employed persons who voluntarily pay in to the organization. The organization takes care of millions of people in Iran.

With some 17,000 casualties in road accidents in Iran each year, the country has one of the world’s worst traffic safety records.
Iran's Social Security Organization chairman Mohammad Taghi Nourbakhsh and his deputy die after a car accident during a visit to Gorgan.