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An ultraconservative president, 63-year-old Raisi was killed Sunday, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other high-ranking officials, in a helicopter crash in Iran’s remote ...
Raisi was the second president of Iran to have died in office, following Mohammad-Ali Rajai, who was killed in a bombing in 1981. [5] The presidential line of succession begins with Mohammad Mokhber, the first vice president. On 20 May, the cabinet said that the government would continue to operate "without the slightest disruption". [38]
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
Raisi is the second Iranian president to die in office. In 1981, a bomb blast killed President Mohammad Ali Rajai in the chaotic days after the country’s Islamic Revolution.
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed after his helicopter crashed in poor weather in ...
President of France: June 24, 1894: Lyon France: Sante Geronimo Caserio: Naser al-Din Shah Qajar: Shah of Iran: May 1, 1896: Tehran Iran: Mirza Reza Kermani: Antonio Cánovas del Castillo: Prime Minister of Spain: August 8, 1897: Mondragón Spain: Michele Angiolillo: Juan Idiarte Borda: President of Uruguay: August 25, 1897: Montevideo Uruguay ...
The United States will boycott a United Nations tribute on Thursday to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed earlier this month in a helicopter crash, a U.S. official said. The 193 ...
President of the Iran Freedom Foundation, former press attache to the Iranian embassy Dawud Salahuddin: 7 February 1984 Paris France: Gholam Ali Oveisi: former Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces: Islamic Jihad Organization: 19 May 1987 Vienna Austria: Hamid Reza Chitgar: Representative of Labor Party of Iran: Suspected Iranian ...