Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.
Rescuers have located a helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials that had apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before.
Mr Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said what it called a “hard landing” happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with the nation of Azerbaijan, 375 miles northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.Traveling with Mr Raisi were Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s east Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire 12 miles south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain. “Various rescue teams are on their way to the region but because of the poor weather and fogginess it might take time for them to reach the helicopter.”State TV aired images of SUVs racing through a wooded area and said they were being hampered by poor weather conditions, including heavy rain and wind. Rescuers could be seen walking in the fog and mist.
An Iranian state TV newsreader reads news on an incident of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in north-western Iran
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