There have been shockwaves throughout the region following the death of Iran’s foreign minister and president in a helicopter crash.
After searching a foggy, hilly area of the country’s northwest, Iranian state media reported that the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, and others were discovered dead at the scene.
This is what we now understand…
As per the state-run IRNA news agency, the chopper was transporting Mr. Raisi, Mr. Amirabdollahian, the governor of the province of East Azerbaijan in Iran, along with other officials and bodyguards.
The accident occurred in the Dizmar forest in Iran’s East Azerbaijan region on Sunday while Mr. Raisi was returning from a trip to the country’s border with Azerbaijan to officially open a dam with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. The cause of the accident is still unknown.
The president of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, said 40 search teams were on the ground despite “challenging weather conditions”.
Because of the bad weather, it was “impossible to conduct aerial searches” via drones, the official said, according to IRNA.
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