Iranian President Raisi feared dying after helicopter crash, whereas state media say there’s ‘no signal of life’

Norman Ray

International Courant

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks throughout a gathering with the Cupboard in Tehran, Iran, October 8, 2023.

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is feared to have been killed in a helicopter crash together with Overseas Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. state media reported Monday.

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Dangerous climate situations and impermeability of the realm In line with the top of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Pirhossein Koulivand, search and rescue operations have been hampered.

Turkey and Russia had despatched plane to help within the search operations.

Raisi, 63, a hardline conservative politician, was elected president in 2021 after failing to take workplace in 2017.

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