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Iranian authorities introduced at present (Monday) that President Ibrahim Raisi, Overseas Minister Amir Abdullahian and different officers had been killed when the helicopter they had been touring in crashed within the northwest of the nation.
Iranian Vice President Mohsen Mansouri confirmed the demise of President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on the X platform, writing: “We belong to God and to Him we are going to return.”
Iranian state tv additionally confirmed the deaths of President Raisi, Overseas Minister Amir Abdullahian and all passengers of the helicopter.
Iranian TV mentioned, “When the helicopter was found, there was no signal that the passengers on board had been nonetheless alive.”
Earlier, Iranian Purple Crescent Chairman Pir Hossein Kolivand introduced that the wreckage of President Ibrahim Raisi’s helicopter had been discovered.
The Iranian Purple Crescent Society despatched search and rescue groups to seek for the helicopter carrying Raisi in two areas the place Turkish Akinci drones detected warmth sources in East Azerbaijan Province (northwest).
It’s price noting that the Turkish Ministry of Protection deployed an “Akinci” drone and a “Puma” helicopter geared up with night time imaginative and prescient know-how to take part within the search and rescue work of the Iranian presidential helicopter.
On Sunday, Iranian state tv introduced that the helicopter carrying President Raisi and a number of other officers was concerned in an accident after he attended the opening ceremony of a dam on the border between the 2 nations with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Iran’s official information company “Islamic Information Company” reported that three helicopters had been carrying the president and officers once they returned to the nation, and first assist groups had been dispatched to the scene of the accident.
In response to the Islamic Information Company of Iran, the passengers on the helicopter included Overseas Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, Consultant of the Supreme Chief of East Azerbaijan Province Mohammad Ali Hashem and East Azerbaijan Governor Malik Lakh Marty.
