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Breaking: Helicopter crashed, carrying Iranian President Raisi onboard.
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https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...d-incident-traveling-iran-president-110372576
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has suffered a “hard landing.”
ByJON GAMBRELL Associated Press
May 19, 2024, 8:42 PM
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Traveling with Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. One local government official used the word “crash” to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather conditions. There had been heavy rain and fog reported with some wind. IRNA called the area a "forest."
Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has suffered a “hard landing.”
ByJON GAMBRELL Associated Press
May 19, 2024, 8:42 PM
1:11
International headlines from ABC News
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Traveling with Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. One local government official used the word “crash” to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather conditions. There had been heavy rain and fog reported with some wind. IRNA called the area a "forest."
Raisi, 63, is a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary. He is viewed as a protégé of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some analysts have suggested he could replace the 85-year-old leader after his death or resignation from the role.
Raisi won Iran's 2021 presidential election, a vote that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Raisi is sanctioned by the U.S. in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 at the end of the bloody Iran-Iraq war.
Under Raisi, Iran now enriches uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and hampers international inspections. Iran has armed Russia in its war on Ukraine, as well as launched a massive drone-and-missile attack on Israel amid its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also has continued arming proxy groups in the Mideast, like Yemen's Houthi rebels and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Raisi won Iran's 2021 presidential election, a vote that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Raisi is sanctioned by the U.S. in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 at the end of the bloody Iran-Iraq war.
Under Raisi, Iran now enriches uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and hampers international inspections. Iran has armed Russia in its war on Ukraine, as well as launched a massive drone-and-missile attack on Israel amid its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also has continued arming proxy groups in the Mideast, like Yemen's Houthi rebels and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Learning from SG PAP
Flooding=Ponding
Collision=Came into contact
Flooding=Ponding
Collision=Came into contact
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024...irans-president-suffers-hard-landing-state-tv
bouring Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam alongside President Ilham Aliyev.
State-linked media said three helicopters were in the convoy, and the two others made it back safely.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Iranian supreme leader to the province, are believed to have been in the same helicopter as Raisi.
Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and Housing and Transportation Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash were in the other helicopters that made it back safely.
People who were with the president inside the helicopter managed to make an emergency call, according to the semi-official Tasnim news website.
Tasnim reported that the increased hopes that the incident can be concluded “without fatalities”.
bouring Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam alongside President Ilham Aliyev.
State-linked media said three helicopters were in the convoy, and the two others made it back safely.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the representative of the Iranian supreme leader to the province, are believed to have been in the same helicopter as Raisi.
Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and Housing and Transportation Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash were in the other helicopters that made it back safely.
People who were with the president inside the helicopter managed to make an emergency call, according to the semi-official Tasnim news website.
Tasnim reported that the increased hopes that the incident can be concluded “without fatalities”.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...ident-raisi-makes-rough-landing-says-minister
The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog when it crashed on May 19. PHOTO: REUTERS
Helicopter carrying Iran’s President Raisi crashes in mountains, official says
The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog when it crashed on May 19. PHOTO: REUTERS
so many hours no news means bad news already
“Iran’s president did not survive the helicopter crash,” Israeli media Kann reported, while Israeli Channel 12 reporter Dafna Liel emphasized that “According to assessments by Israeli and Western agencies, Iran’s president did not survive.”
Shot down by Israel or Biden ?
Helicopter likely badly destroyed as helicopters used for high-ranking officials can send out their exact location in case of a crash, unless an explosion has disabled all onboard systems, including the emergency system,” Iranian defense and security analyst Farzin Nadimi told @IranIntl.
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