Iran’s President Ebrahimn Raisi on Sunday along with some government officials died in a helicopter crash, following a rough landing in the northwestern Iranian province of East Azarbaijan.
Forty rapid response teams were deployed to carry out search operations to find the helicopter that conveyed the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and three other officials.
The three other officials in the helicopter
with President Raisi are Foreign Minister
Hossein Amirabdollahian, East Azarbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati, East Azarbaijan Imam of Friday Prayer Mohammad AIi Ale-Hashem.
Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vaidi had
explained the helicopter had a “hard
landing” as a result of bad weather
conditions and heavy fog.
The weather conditions in the location that Iran’s President helicopter crashed has made rescue efforts extremely difficult.
President Raisi was returning from a visit
to neighbouring Azerbaijan when the crash Occurred. Raisi had gone to inaugurate a dam alongside Azerbaijan’s President lham Aliyev.
Meanwhile, Iranian security sources
have suggested that the downing of
the president’s helicopter out of the 3
helicopters, 2 of which arrived safely,
presents a major and dangerous security
event.
“We are facing the possibility of a “major
assassination attempt” or an actual
murder,” the sources alleged.
Details shortly..