{"id":8940,"date":"2024-05-21T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2024-05-25T11:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T11:55:40","slug":"irans-president-ebrahim-raisi-confirmed-dead-in-helicopter-crash-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=8940","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi confirmed dead in helicopter crash \u2013 State TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n \t<\/i> Read Time:<\/span>1 Minute, 45 Second <\/div>\n\n <\/div>

Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have been\u00a0confirmed killed\u00a0after the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in poor weather.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to an Al Jazeera<\/em> report, the bodies of the people aboard were found on Monday morning, some hours after their helicopter crashed in Iran\u2019s northwestern region, state media reported.<\/p>\n

The accident challenges the country\u2019s senior leadership as Iran sits in the midst of heightened regional and global tensions centred on the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Rescuers from the Iranian Red Crescent had fought through dense fog, blizzards and mountainous terrain to reach the\u00a0site of the crash\u00a0in the East Azerbaijan province. On finding the wreckage, they had reported \u201cno sign of life\u201d.<\/p>\n

State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash, which also killed the governor of East Azerbaijan province and other officials, bodyguards and crew members, according to the state-run IRNA News Agency.<\/p>\n

State media showed a video from the Red Crescent of the helicopter crash site [Handout\/Iranian Red Crescent via AFP]The 63-year-old Raisi was elected president on his second attempt in 2021, and since taking office, has overseen a tightening of morality laws, a bloody crackdown on antigovernment protests triggered by the death in custody of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini, and taken a tougher approach to nuclear talks with world powers.<\/p>\n

Last month, he ordered an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel, following an alleged Israeli strike on Iran\u2019s embassy compound in Damascus which killed 13 people including a top commander and his deputy.<\/p>\n

Navy helicopters mid-air collision leaves 10 dead in Malaysia<\/a><\/p>\n

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who holds ultimate power in Iran, had earlier sought to reassure Iranians, some of whom turned out to pray for Raisi\u2019s wellbeing, saying there would be no disruption to state affairs.<\/p>\n

Raisi, a hardliner who formerly led the country\u2019s judiciary, is viewed as a protege of the 85-year-old Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Credit: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The post Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi confirmed dead in helicopter crash \u2013 State TV<\/a> first appeared on 3News<\/a>.<\/p>

\n
\n \n
\n \n \"Happy\"\n <\/a>\n
\n Happy <\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n \n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n \n \"Sad\"\n <\/a>\n
\n Sad <\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n \n \"Excited\"\n <\/a>\n
\n Excited <\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n \n \"Sleepy\"\n <\/a>\n
\n Sleepy <\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n \n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n \n \"Angry\"\n <\/a>\n
Angry<\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\n \n \"Surprise\"\n <\/a>\n
Surprise<\/div>\n
\n 0<\/span>\n 0<\/span> %<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian have been\u00a0confirmed killed\u00a0after the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in poor weather. According to an Al Jazeera report, the bodies… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9933,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/9933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}