Iran President dying: The place did Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash?

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner and potential successor to the nation’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in a helicopter crash.

The helicopter took off from the Khodaafarin Dam, within the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, on Sunday afternoon.

Raisi, together with Iran’s Overseas Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, had been collaborating within the inauguration of the dam alongside the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

However the helicopter later crashed in a distant and mountainous area within the Arasbaran Forest, close to the border with Azerbaijan within the Varzeqan area. The helicopter had been carrying each Raisi and Amirabdollahian, in addition to six different passengers and crew.

The tough distance between the place the helicopter is believed to have gone down and the Khodaafarin Dam is round 80 miles.

State media reported that there had been blizzards and foggy situations in the course of the flight, climate that rescuers have since needed to navigate to achieve the crash website. State media claimed the poor situations had been the reason for the crash, although the 2 different helicopters in Raisi’s convoy reportedly “reached their vacation spot safely”, in line with the Tasmin information company.

Raisi’s dying was confirmed in a press release on social media by Vice President Mohsen Mansouri and on state tv. First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has taken over as interim president, with an election needing to be held inside 50 days.

State media reported that photographs from the positioning confirmed the US-made Bell 212 helicopter slammed right into a mountain peak, though there was no official phrase on the reason for the crash. The useless additionally included the governor of East Azerbaijan Province and a senior imam from Tabriz metropolis.

Raisi, 63, was elected president in 2021, and since taking workplace has ordered a tightening of morality legal guidelines, overseen a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests and pushed exhausting in nuclear talks with world powers.

The crash occurred some 400 miles from the Iranian capital of Tehran.