The State Department offered its official condolences Monday for the death of two Iranian officials killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend.
The State Department offered its condolences Monday following the deaths of two Iranian leaders, including the Islamic Republic's president – a 'baffling' move considering Iran's well-known human rights abuses, a human rights lawyer said. In a statement, the agency expressed 'its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
Iran's state-run news agency, IRNA, said the crash killed eight people, including three crew members aboard the Bell helicopter, which Iran purchased in the early 2000s. Raisi was nicknamed the 'Butcher of Tehran' for his oversight of mass executions of political prisoners in 1988, which forced Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to install interim leadership for Iran's executive branch.
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