Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash, state media reports.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash, state media reports. The craft came down yesterday in a remote region in the country's north-west - with a search party working overnight to find the wreckage.President Raisi was travelling with officials when the craft came down yesterday near Jolfa, a city on the Azerbaijani border.
State media in Iran previously said there was "no sign of life" at the crash site. The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war during which Mr Raisi, under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel last month.
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