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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 ...
[2] [3] [4] They were detained in the notorious Evin Prison for 259 days [5] [6] [7] where they were tortured and interrogated. [8] After gaining freedom, the two women wrote Captive in Iran which detailed their experiences. [6] [9] Amirizadeh became an American citizen in 2016 and campaigned in the 2022 Georgia House of Representatives ...
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 U.S. State Department in a statement offers official condolences for the victims of the helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and others. It adds that “as Iran selects a new ...
After the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, expect the internal power struggle to begin – and Iranian people again left with no voice – writes Frida Ghitis.
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]
Iranians voted on Friday to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country's northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials.
Early presidential elections in Iran were held on 28 June and 5 July 2024 [1] following the death of incumbent president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on 19 May. [2]Four candidates contested the first round of the election, in which Masoud Pezeshkian won 44%, Saeed Jalili won 40%, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf won 14% and Mostafa Pourmohammadi won less than 1% of the vote.