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On 19 May 2024, an Iranian Air Force helicopter crashed near the village of Uzi, East Azerbaijan, Iran, killing President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Governor-General of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati, representative of the supreme leader in East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the head of the president's security team, and three flight crew. [1]
— Iran’s president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says — Iran President Ebrahim Raisi, supreme leader’s protégé, dies at 63 in helicopter crash
Ultraconservative Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed Sunday, along with his foreign minister, in a helicopter crash in Iran’s remote northwest, injecting fresh uncertainty as the country ...
The crash killed all eight people aboard a Bell 212 helicopter that Iran purchased in the early 2000s, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Among the dead were Iranian Foreign Minister ...
Iran's semi-official news agency, Mehr News, described them as having been "martyred in the crash." [144] Raisi was the second president of Iran to have died in office, following Mohammad-Ali Rajai, who died in a 1981 bombing. [145] Following confirmation of Raisi's death, Khamenei declared five days of national mourning. [146]
On Monday, Iranian state news IRNA said Iran’s presidential elections will take place Friday, June 28. Candidates can register from May 30 to June 3, and campaigning will run from June 12 until ...
The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: رئیسجمهور ایران, romanized: Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the supreme leader. [3]
An official investigation into the helicopter crash in May that killed Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people found it was caused by challenging climatic and atmospheric ...